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Christian Wiener

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Short description: German mathematician
Christian Wiener
Born
Darmstadt, Germany
Died31 July 1896(1896-07-31) (aged 69)
NationalityGermany
Alma materUniversity of Giessen
Known forBrownian motion
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsKarlsruhe 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.

Selected publications

  • Lehrbuch der darstellenden Geometrie, 2 Bände, Teubner, Leipzig 1884, 1887, online at archiv.org: [1], [2]
  • Die ersten Sätze der Erkenntniß, insbesondere das Gesetz der Ursächlichkeit und die Wirklichkeit der Außenwelt, Berlin, Lüderitz 1874
  • Die Freiheit des Willens, Darmstadt, Brill 1894
  • Die Grundzüge der Weltordnung, Leipzig, Winter 1863, [3]
  • Über Vielecke und Vielflache, Teubner 1864

References

  • Thompson, D W., 1992. On Growth and Form. Cambridge Univ. Press. Abridged edition by John Tyler Bonner, p. 45. ISBN 0-521-43776-8, ISBN 978-0-521-43776-9.Online in Google Books
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Christian Wiener", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiener_Christian.html .
  • Otto Wiener, "Christian Wiener zum 100. Geburtstag", Naturwissenschaften Bd.15, 1927, Issue 4.




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