Johann Samuel König

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

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

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. 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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