Biography

Youth and education

Cauchy was the son of Louis François Cauchy (1760-1848) and Marie-Madeleine Desestre. Cauchy had two brothers: Alexandre Laurent Cauchy (1792-1857), who became a president of a division of the court of appeal in 1847 and a judge of the court of cassation in 1849, and Eugene François Cauchy (1802-1877), a publicist who also wrote several mathematical works. From his

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