Christian_Wiener

Christian Wiener

Christian Wiener

German mathematician

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.

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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

  • Lehrbuch der darstellenden Geometrie, 2 Bände, Teubner, Leipzig 1884, 1887, online at archiv.org: ,
  • 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,
  • Über Vielecke und Vielflache, Teubner 1864

References

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