Mathematician:Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde

Mathematician
French mathematician and musician mainly active in the fields of combinatorics.

Referred to by some as "the founder of the theory of determinants".

Best known nowadays for the Vandermonde determinant and the Chu-Vandermonde Identity.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 28 Feb 1735 in Paris, France
 * Died: 1 Jan 1796 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Vandermonde Determinant
 * Vandermonde Matrix
 * Chu-Vandermonde Identity (a redisovery of the result shown by ), also known as Vandermonde's Convolution

Publications

 * 1771: Mémoire sur la résolution des équations
 * 1771: Remarques sur des problèmes de situation
 * 1772: Mémoire sur l'élimination
 * 1772: Mémoire sur l'élimination