Hermite

Lat: 86.0°N, Long: 89.9°W, Diam: 104 km, Depth: 5.14 km, Rükl: 4, pre-Nectarian

left: Lunar Orbiter IV . right: LROC . At upper left border is Rozhdestvenskiy

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Depth data from Kurt Fisher database

Charles Hermite(December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. In a letter to Thomas Stieltjes in 1893, Hermite famously remarked: "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives."
Name given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).
Hermite has one associated lettered crater: Hermite A. As shown in the figure above, a number of formerly unnamed small craters around it have recently been given individual IAU-approved names.