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Johann Samuel König

Johann Samuel König

German mathematician (1712-1757)

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

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Biography

Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period.[1] König is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action.[2] He is also remembered as a tutor to Émilie du Châtelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.[3]

  • 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. [1]
    The principle of Least Action, Philip E.B. Jourdain, Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1913; p. 25 ftnt.107
  2. [2]
    The Principle of Least Action by Philip E. B. Jourdain, Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1913
  3. [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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