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1789–1857 France

Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician and physicist who made pioneering contributions to analysis. He was one of the first to state and prove theorems of calculus rigorously, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors.

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Also known as: Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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There is no let up! No end to it! Accursed problems! Innumerable calculations. Endless fighting. Signs. Formulas. Theorems besetting me from dawn to dusk!

Residues arise … naturally in several branches of analysis … . Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results … .

As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008). The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. World Scientific. p. 301.

... very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate.

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