Last day someone asked etymology of the term "Hermitian"
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The name comes from an old French mathematician by the name of Hermite:
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http://www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/educmat/chm386/rudiment/quanmath/hermit.htm
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The eigenvalues of Hermitian operators are real.
You wanna proof!!??!!
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