Johann Samuel König

Johann Samuel König
Born(1712-07-31)31 July 1712
Büdingen
Died21 August 1757(1757-08-21) (aged 45)
Zuilenstein near Amerongen
Known forKönig's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Johann Samuel König (31 July 1712 – 21 August 1757) was a German mathematician.

Biography

Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action. He is also remembered as a tutor to Émilie du Châtelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.

  • Illustration about the article De nova quadam facili delineatu trajectoria... from Acta Eruditorum, 1735
  • Illustration about the article De centro inertiae... from Acta Eruditorum, 1738

Notes

  1. ^ The principle of Least Action, Philip E.B. Jourdain, Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1913; p. 25 ftnt.107
  2. ^ The Principle of Least Action by Philip E. B. Jourdain, Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1913
  3. ^ The Parsimonious Universe by Stefan Hildebrandt & Anthony Tromba, Springer-Verlag, 1996, p. 33 note 2.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Johann Samuel König", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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