Mathematician:Georg Simon Ohm

Mathematician
German physicist and mathematician best remembered for Ohm's Law. This discovery was disbelieved at first, because it seemed to mathematically convenient to be true.

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Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 16 March 1789 in Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
 * Died: 6 July 1854 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany)

Some sources give his birth date as 1787, but this is not widely corroborated.

Theorems

 * Ohm's Law
 * Ohm (unit of measurement of electrical resistance)

Publications

 * 1817: Grundlinien zu einer zweckmäßigen Behandlung der Geometrie als höheren Bildungsmittels an vorbereitenden Lehranstalten / entworfen ("Guidelines for an appropriate treatment of geometry in higher education at preparatory institutes / notes")


 * 1827: Die galvanische Kette : mathematisch bearbeitet ("The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically")


 * 1849: Elemente der analytischen Geometrie im Raume am schiefwinkligen Coordinatensysteme ("Elements of analytic geometry concerning the skew coordinate system")


 * 1854: Grundzüge der Physik als Compendium zu seinen Vorlesungen ("Fundamentals of physics: Compendium of lectures")