Portrait of Charles Hermite
. Photograph by Eugène Pirou (1841–1909); heliogravure by Paul Dujardin (1843–1913); printer Ch. Whittmann; published in Correspondance d’Hermite et de Stieltjes, 1905. Public domain: origin and life-plus-70 jurisdictions; US pre-1931 publication. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source. Articles by others on the same topic
Charles Hermite (1822–1901) was a French mathematician known for his significant contributions to various areas of mathematics, including algebra, number theory, and analysis. He is particularly famous for his work on the theory of functions, including elliptic functions and polynomials, and his studies on transcendental numbers.