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 Notation

• Joachimsthal's Section-Formulae

Results named for Ferdinand Joachimsthal can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ferdinand Joachimsthal can be found here.

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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ferdinand Joachimsthal": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive