Everything about Alexandre-th Ophile Vandermonde totally explained
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (
28 February 1735 –
1 January 1796) was a
French musician and
chemist who worked with
Bezout and
Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with
determinant theory in
mathematics. He was born in
Paris, and died there.
Vandermonde was a violinist, and became engaged with mathematics only around 1770. In
Mémoire sur la résolution des équations (1771) he reported on
symmetric functions and solution of
cyclotomic polynomials; this paper anticipated later
Galois theory. In
Remarques sur des problèmes de situation (1771) he studied
knight's tours. The same year he was elected to the
French Academy of Sciences.
Mémoire sur des irrationnelles de différents ordres avec une application au cercle (1772) was on
combinatorics, and
Mémoire sur l'élimination (1772) on the foundations of determinant theory. These papers were presented to the
Académie des Sciences, and constitute all his published mathematical work. The
Vandermonde determinant doesn't make an explicit appearance.
A special class of
matrices, the
Vandermonde matrices are named after him, as is an elementary fact of combinatorics,
Vandermonde's identity.
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