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Vandermonde was a violinist, and became engaged with mathematics only around 1770. In
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Vandermonde : secret society of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
183:(1772) on the foundations of determinant theory. These papers were presented to the 250: 148: 140: 173:
Mémoire sur des irrationnelles de différents ordres avec une application au cercle
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Un exemple de multidisciplinarité : Alexandre Vandermonde (1735-1796)
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are named after him, as is an elementary fact of combinatorics,
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for the role of Vandermonde in the genesis of group theory). In
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Vandermonde
references
inline citations
improve
introducing
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chemist
Bézout
Lavoisier
determinant
Paris
symmetric functions
cyclotomic polynomials
Galois theory
abstract algebra
knight's tours
knot theory
topological
French Academy of Sciences
combinatorics
Académie des Sciences
Vandermonde determinant
École Normale Supérieure
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
École polytechnique
matrices
Vandermonde matrices
Vandermonde's identity
secret society
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