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Christian Wiener | |
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| Born | Darmstadt, Germany |
| Died | 31 July 1896 (aged 69) |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Giessen |
| Known for | Brownian motion |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Ludwig Christian Wiener (7 December 1826 Darmstadt – 31 July 1896 Karlsruhe) was a German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry. Wiener was also a physicist and philosopher. In 1863, he was the first person to identify qualitatively the internal molecular cause of Brownian motion.
Wiener was the son of a judge and studied architecture and engineering in Giessen. After the state examination in 1848, he became a teacher at the "Höhere Gewerbeschule" in Darmstadt, today the Technische Universität Darmstadt.[1]
The mathematician Hermann Wiener was his son.
