Augustin-Louis Cauchy brought formalism to mathematics in the 19th century and defined the concepts of limits, continuity, and derivatives, familiar to modern-day students of calculus. He made contributions to number theory, developed ideas on the...

Cauchy's father was a brilliant classical scholar who, in his early years, held the post of barrister at the parlement of Normandy. During the terror of the French Revolution, the Cauchy family moved out of harm's way to the village of Arcueil, where...

The French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) provided the foundation for the modern period of rigor in analysis. He launched the theory of functions of a complex variable and was its authoritative pioneer developer. Augustin Louis Cauchy...

1789-1857 French Mathematician During his impressive career Augustin-Louis Cauchy published 789 scientific papers, more than almost any other scientist in the history of science. These papers spanned all of the fields of mathematics of his day and...

Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23,1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of calculus in a rigorous manner and was thus an early pioneer of analysis. He also gave several...