Mathematician:Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

Mathematician

German physicist and medical doctor known (among many other things) for his theories on the conservation of energy, work in electrodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, and on a mechanical foundation of thermodynamics.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 31 August 1821 in Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany)
• Died: 8 September 1894 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Helmholtz's Theorem

Results named for Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz can be found here.

Publications

• 1847: On the Conservation of Force

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive