Charles Hermite (1822–1901) was a very versatile French analyst and algebraist. He solved the quintic equations by means of elliptic functions, discovered a class of orthogonal polynomials that bear his name and proved the transcendence of e, the base of the natural logarithms. (M 43195) _ _.
Discovered on 28-7-1998 in Prescott by Comba, P. G.