Mathematician:Gustav de Vries
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Mathematician
Dutch mathematician known for his work on the Korteweg-de Vries equation, together with Diederik Johannes Korteweg.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 22 January 1866 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Died: 16 December 1934 in Haarlem, Netherlands
Theorems and Definitions
Definitions of concepts named for Gustav de Vries can be found here.
Publications
- 1894: Bijdrage tot de kennis der lange golven ("Contribution to the knowledge of long waves")
- 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 D.J. Korteweg)
- 1907: A Concise Textbook on Arithmetic and Algebra
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gustav de Vries": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): integrable system