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.

Teacher of Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.

Elder brother of Martin Ohm.

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 resistance)
  • Abohm
  • Statohm

Results named for Georg Simon Ohm can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Georg Simon Ohm can be found here.

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")

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Georg Simon Ohm": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1972: George F. Simmons: Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 2.13$: Simple Electric Circuits: Footnote