Christian Wiener

Short description: German mathematician

Christian Wiener

Born|

Darmstadt, Germany

Died| 31 July 1896(1896-07-31) (aged 69)

Karlsruhe, Germany

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.

## 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

1. ↑ Biographie, Deutsche. "Wiener, Christian - Deutsche Biographie" (in de). https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz31203.html.

* 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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