Jakob Hermann (mathematician)
Jakob Hermann (born July 16, 1678 in Basel ; † July 11, 1733 there ) was a Swiss mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics .
Life
Jakob Hermann, who was a distant relative of Leonhard Euler , initially received his education from Jakob I Bernoulli and graduated in 1696. In 1701 he became a member of the Berlin Academy . In 1707 he was appointed professor of mathematics in Padua . In 1713 he moved to Frankfurt an der Oder and from there in 1724 to St. Petersburg , where he became an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences on January 1, 1731 . In 1731 he returned to Basel to take a chair in ethics, natural and international law.
In 1733, the year of his death, Hermann was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris).
Along with Johann I. Bernoulli , Pierre Varignon and Jakob I. Bernoulli, Hermann was one of those who formulated Newtonian mechanics in the early phase of the reception of Newtonian mechanics in the form of Leibnizian calculus.
He seems to have been the first to show that the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector is a constant for the movement of particles on which a central force acts inversely to the square of the distance.
The lunar crater Hermann is named after him.
literature
- Moritz Cantor : Hermann, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 181 f.
- Emil A. Fellmann: Hermann, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , pp. 658 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rudolf Mumenthaler : In the paradise of the learned. Swiss scientist in the Tsarist Empire (1725–1917). H. Rohr, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-85865-632-1 .
Web links
- Works by and about Jakob Hermann in the German Digital Library
- Fritz Nagel: Hermann, Jacob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Jakob Hermann (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Jakob Hermann. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 17, 2015 (Russian).
- ↑ Andreas Verdun, Leonard Euler's work on celestial mechanics, Springer 2015, p. 72
- ^ Jakob Hermann: Metodo d'investigare l'Orbite de Pianeti… . In: Giornale de 'letterati d'Italia . 2, 1710, pp. 447-467.
- ↑ Jakob Hermann: Extrait d'une lettre de M. Herman à M. Bernoulli datée de Padoüe le 12. Juillet 1710 . In: Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences (Paris) . 1710, August, pp. 519-521.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermann, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hermann, Jacob; Hermann, Jacobus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1678 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1733 |
| Place of death | Basel |