Wilhelm Veltmann
Wilhelm Veltmann (born December 29, 1832 in Bathey near Hagen ; † March 6, 1902 there ) was a German mathematician, physicist and worked as a professor in Bonn.
Life
Veltmann was a teacher at the trade school in Königsberg , a teacher in Wiedenbrück , at the building trade school in Holzminden , at the secondary school in Düren and from 1877 interim director of the higher secondary school for boys in Remagen . In 1883 he became a lecturer and from 1892 a regular professor at the agricultural academy in Poppelsdorf in Bonn.
He published on pure mathematics as well as on applied topics and physics (Helmholtz fluid vortex, propagation of light in moving media, aberration, influence machines, curvature of the cutting edge of knives in the chopping machine).
In 1876 he successfully applied the Lagrange equations of motion of the 2nd kind to the problem of why the imperial bell in Cologne Cathedral could not be made to ring.
On October 7, 1888 , he became a member of the Leopoldina .
literature
- Helmut Bode: Control engineering systems with Matlab and Simula. Oldenbourg 2013, p. 100 (biographical information in the footnote with life data).
Web links
- Calliope
- Member entry by Wilhelm Veltmann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 4, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poggendorffs Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch zu Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, Volume 3, 1898, p. 1886
- ↑ W. Veltmann: About the movement of a bell. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 220, 1876, pp. 481-495.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veltmann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bathey near Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1902 |
| Place of death | Bathey near Hagen |