Mathematician:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

Mathematician

Prussian physicist who contributed significantly to the fundamental understanding of electric circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

Nationality

Prussian

History

• Born: 12 March 1824 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
• Died: 17 October 1887 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws:
  • Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
  • Kirchhoff's Current Law

• Kirchhoff Equations
• Kirchhoff-Love Plate Theory (with Augustus Edward Hough Love)
• Piola-Kirchhoff Stress Tensor (with ??? Piola)
• Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation
• Kirchhoff's Three Laws of Spectroscopy
• Kirchhoff's Theorem
• Kirchhoff's Diffraction Formula
• Kirchhoff Integral Theorem

Results named for Gustav Robert Kirchhoff can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Gustav Robert Kirchhoff can be found here.

Publications

• 1860: Ueber die Fraunhoferschen Linien

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gustav Robert Kirchhoff": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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