Carl Anton Bjerknes
Carl Anton Bjerknes (born October 24, 1825 in Christiania, now Oslo , in Norway , † March 20, 1903 in Kristiania) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist .
His father was Abraham Isaksen Bjerknes, his mother Elen Birgitte Holmen. At the Royal Frederick University Christiania studied Bjerknes first mining to later mathematics at the University of Göttingen and Paris to study. In 1866 he received a chair for applied mathematics in Christiania and in 1869 for pure mathematics.
Influenced by the lectures of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , Bjerknes occupied himself with hydromechanics for the rest of his life . He tried to justify James Clerk Maxwell's electrodynamics and to create a mechanical gravitation explanation by means of hydromechanical analogies . Although he did not achieve these goals, the knowledge he gained on hydromechanics was significant.
His son Vilhelm Bjerknes partly continued his work.
literature
- V. Bjerknes: Carl Anton Bjerknes: memorial speech . JA Barth, Leipzig 1904, p. 31 .
- EB Wilson: Review: Carl Anton Bjerknes: Commemorative Speech . In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. tape 10 , no. 10 , 1904, pp. 516 .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Carl Anton Bjerknes. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Article in Norsk biografisk leksikon
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bjerknes, Carl Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian physicist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1903 |
| Place of death | Kristiania |