Olry Terquem

Olry Terquem was a French mathematician, born on 16 June 1782 and dead on 6 May 1862, known for his works in geometry and for founding two scientific journals, one of which was the first journal about the history of mathematics. He grew up speaking Yiddish and studying only Hebrew and the Talmud, but after the French Revolution his studies broadened and in 1801 he entered the École Polytechnique as only the second Jew to study there, becoming an assistant in 1803 and taking a doctorate in 1804. He taught at the Imperial Lycée in Mainz and at artillery schools, and from 1815 was librarian of the Dépôt Central de l'Artillerie in Paris. In geometry he is known for naming the nine-point circle and fully proving its properties, and with Gerono he founded the Nouvelles Annales de Mathématiques in 1842.