Diederik Johannes Korteweg
Diederik Johannes Korteweg (born March 31, 1848 in Hertogenbosch , † May 10, 1941 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch applied mathematician .
Korteweg went to school in Hertogenbosch (his father was a judge) and studied at the Polytechnic in Delft to become an engineer, but then switched to training as a mathematics teacher. He taught mathematics in Tilburg and Breda before continuing his studies at Utrecht University and Amsterdam University in 1876, where he received his doctorate in 1878 under Johannes Diderik van der Waals . In his dissertation, Korteweg succeeded for the first time in correctly setting up the equation for the movement of a pressure surge in an elastic pipe. Korteweg was from 1881 to 1918 professor of mathematics, mechanics and astronomy at the University of Amsterdam.
Together with his doctoral student Gustav de Vries , he developed the ( Korteweg-de-Vries equation ) , a third-order nonlinear partial differential equation . It was first proposed in 1895 by Korteweg and de Vries for the analysis of shallow water waves in narrow channels.
On July 5, 2001, the asteroid (9685) Korteweg was named after him.
literature
- DJ Korteweg, Over Voortplantings-Snelheid van Golven in elastic Buizen . Leiden: Doesburgh, 1878
- DJ Korteweg & G. de Vries, On the Change of Form of Long Waves advancing in a Rectangular Canal and on a New Type of Long Stationary Waves . Philosophical Magazine, 5th series, 36, 1895, pp. 422-443
- Joanna Sengers, Antonius Levell, Diederik Korteweg- a pioneer of criticality , Physics Today, December 2002
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Diederik Johannes Korteweg. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Life and work of Korteweg and de Vries (Engl.)
- Detailed biography (.pdf) (nl; 1.42 MB)
- Bastiann Willink: De samenwerking tussen Korteweg en De Vries: Een speurtocht naar persoonlijkheden (Dutch, PDF file; 457 kB) , Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, Volume 7, September 2006, pp. 179–185
- Dutch biography of Tom Koornwinder
- Website at the Korteweg-de-Vries-Institut
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korteweg, Diederik Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hertogenbosch |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1941 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |