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Hermite

American  
[her-meet, er-meet] / hərˈmit, ɛrˈmit /

noun

  1. Charles 1822–1901, French mathematician.


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Relatives of Hermite Mercius, who died on April 18 in a Brooklyn nursing home from the virus, said the funeral home misidentified her remains, sending them a photo of someone who was not her.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020

Abel proved the problem to be impossible; a solution involving elliptic functions has been given by C. Hermite and L. Kronecker, while F. Klein has given another solution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

The traveller who visits Hermite Island, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Horn, will find them so at this day.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears

Hermite and Besançon with balloons of thirty-five cubic feet contents, and about half of those dispatched from Paris were recovered within a radius of one hundred miles.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch

False Cape Horn lies nine miles to the north-east and is the west point of Nassau Bay, where James Hermite cast anchor.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

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