Jump to content

Christian Wiener

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Wiener
Born(1826-12-07)7 December 1826
Died31 July 1896(1896-07-31) (aged 69)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Giessen
Known forBrownian motion
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsKarlsruhe Institute of Technology

Ludwig Christian Wiener (7 December 1826 Darmstadt – 31 July 1896 Karlsruhe) was a German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry. Wiener was also a physicist and philosopher. In 1863, he was the first person to identify qualitatively the internal molecular cause of Brownian motion.

Wiener was the son of a judge and studied architecture and engineering in Giessen. After the state examination in 1848, he became a teacher at the "Höhere Gewerbeschule" in Darmstadt, today the Technische Universität Darmstadt.[1]

The mathematician Hermann Wiener was his son.

Selected publications

[edit]
  • Lehrbuch der darstellenden Geometrie, 2 Bände, Teubner, Leipzig 1884, 1887, online at archiv.org: [1], [2]
  • Die ersten Sätze der Erkenntniß, insbesondere das Gesetz der Ursächlichkeit und die Wirklichkeit der Außenwelt, Berlin, Lüderitz 1874
  • Die Freiheit des Willens, Darmstadt, Brill 1894
  • Die Grundzüge der Weltordnung, Leipzig, Winter 1863, [3]
  • Über Vielecke und Vielflache, Teubner 1864

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Biographie, Deutsche. "Wiener, Christian - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-16.