Mathematician:Ferdinand Joachimsthal

Mathematician
German mathematician who made substantial contributions to the theory of surfaces, and applied the theory of determinants to geometry.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 9 March 1818 in Goldberg, Prussian Silesia (now Złotoryja, Poland)
 * Died: 5 April 1861 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Joachimsthal's Equation
 * Joachimsthal's Section-Formulae


 * Joachimsthal's Notation

Publications

 * 1840: De lineis brevissimis in superficiebus rotatione ortis
 * 1844: Über die Bedingung der Integrabilität
 * 1846: Über die Bedingung der Integrabilität
 * 1848: Mémoire sur les surfaces courbes
 * 1850: De duabus aequationibus quarti et sexti gradus in theoria linearum et superficierum secundi ordinis occurrunt


 * 1852: Cours de géométrie élémentaire à l'usage des élèves du Collège Royal Français