Augustin Louis Cauchy

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 important theorems in complex analysis and initiated the study of permutation groups. A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. His writings cover the entire range of mathematics and mathematical physics.

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• {{MacTutor Biography|id=Cauchy}}
• Cauchy criterion for convergence