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Johann Samuel König
Born(1712-07-31)July 31, 1712
DiedAugust 21, 1757(1757-08-21) (aged 45)
Known forKönig's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Illustration about De nova quadam facili delineatu trajectoria from Acta Eruditorum, 1735

Johann Samuel König (July 31, 1712 in Büdingen – August 21, 1757 in Zuilenstein near Amerongen) was a mathematician. 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]

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