Mathematician:Diederik Johannes Korteweg
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Mathematician
Dutch mathematician best remembered for his work on the Korteweg-de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 31 March 1848 in Den Bosch, Netherlands
- Died: 10 May 1941 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theorems and Definitions
- Korteweg Stress
- Korteweg-de Vries Equation (with Gustav de Vries)
- Moens-Korteweg Equation (with Adriaan Isebree Moens)
Definitions of concepts named for Diederik Johannes Korteweg can be found here.
Publications
- 1878: On the propagation of waves in elastic tubes
- 1895: On the Change of Form of Long Waves advancing in a Rectangular Canal and on a New Type of Long Stationary Waves (Phil. Mag. Ser. 5 Vol. 39, no. 240: pp. 422 – 443) (with G. de Vries)
- 1900: Sur un théorème remarquable, qui se rapporte à la théorie des équations algébriques à paramètres réels, dont toutes les racines restent constamment réelles ("On a remarkable theorem, which relates to the theory of algebraic equations with real parametersfor which all the roots are real constants")
- 1901: Sur la forme que prennent les équations du mouvement des fluids si l'on tient compte des forces capillaires causés par les variations de densité ("On the form the equations of motions of fluids assume if account is taken of the capillary forces caused by density variations")
- 1902: Over plooipunten en bijbehorende plooien in de nabijheid der randlijnen van het E'-vlak van Van der Waals ("Plait points and corresponding plaits in the neighbourhood of the sides of the E'-surface of Van der Waals")
- 1905: Huygens' sympathetic clocks and related phenomena
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Diederik Johannes Korteweg": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): integrable system