Jacques Charles François Sturm
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French mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jacques Charles François Sturm was a French mathematician, who made a significant addition to equation theory with his work, the Sturm's theorem. Early life Sturm was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1803. The family of his father, Jean-Henri Sturm, had emigrated from Strasbourg around 1760—about 50 years before Charles-François's birth. His mother's name was Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Gremay.