Editing Olry Terquem (section)

==Education and career==
Terquem grew up speaking [[Yiddish]], and studying only the [[Hebrew language]] and the [[Talmud]].<ref name="waterhouse">{{citation
 | last = Waterhouse | first = William C. | authorlink = William C. Waterhouse
 | doi = 10.2307/2975573
 | issue = 6
 | journal = The American Mathematical Monthly
 | mr = 707152
 | pages = 378–387
 | title = Do symmetric problems have symmetric solutions?
 | url = http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22/Ford/Waterhouse378-387.pdf
 | volume = 90
 | year = 1983| jstor = 2975573 }}. Biographical appendix, pp. 385–386.</ref> However, after the [[French Revolution]] his family came into contact with a wider society, and his studies broadened.<ref name="waterhouse"/> Despite his poor French he was admitted to study mathematics at the [[École Polytechnique]] in Paris, beginning in 1801, as only the second Jew to study there.<ref name="je"/><ref name="waterhouse"/><ref name="ratcliffe">{{citation|title=Mathematics and Social Utopias in France: Olinde Rodrigues and His Times|volume=28|series=History of Mathematics|editor1-first=Simon|editor1-last=Altmann|editor2-first=Eduardo L.|editor2-last=Ortiz|publisher=American Mathematical Society|year=2006|isbn=9780821842539|contribution=Chapter 3. Towards a better understanding of Olinde Rodriguez and his circle: family and faith in his life and career|first=Barrie M.|last=Ratcliffe|pages=39–70}}. See in particular [https://books.google.com/books?id=o8hCH7R7TjMC&pg=PA60 pp.&nbsp;60–61].</ref> He became an assistant there in 1803, and earned his doctorate in 1804.

After finishing his studies he moved to [[Mainz]] (at that time known as Mayence and part of imperial France), where he taught at the Imperial Lycée. In 1811 he moved to the [[School of Applied Artillery (France)|artillery school]] in the same city, in 1814 he moved again to the artillery school in [[Grenoble]], and in 1815 he became the librarian of the Dépôt Central de l'Artillerie in Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life. He became an officer of the [[Legion of Honor]] in 1852. After he died, his funeral was officiated by [[Lazare Isidor]], the [[Chief Rabbi]] of Paris and later of France, and attended by over 12 generals headed by [[Edmond Le Bœuf]].<ref name="je"/><ref name="waterhouse"/>