Martin Ohm

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Martin Ohm (1792–1872) was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm. He earned his doctorate in 1811 at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg where his advisor was Karl Christian von Langsdorf. Ohm was the first to fully develop the theory of the exponential ab when both a and b are complex numbers in 1823.[1] He is also often credited with introducing the name "golden section" (goldener Schnitt).[2]

Martin Ohm
Martin Ohm

[edit] Students

Ohm's students included Friedrich August, Friedrich Bachmann, Paul Bachmann, Joseph Brutkowski, Heinrich Eduard Heine, Rudolf Lipschitz, Leo Pochhammer, Friedrich Prym, Wilhelm Wagner, Hermann Waldaestel, Wilhelm Wernicke, Elena Gerz, Valentien Gerz, and Johanna Gerz.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cajori, Florian (1991). A History of Mathematics, 5e, 329–330. ISBN 0-8218-2102-4. 
  2. ^ Underwood Dudley (1999). Die Macht der Zahl: Was die Numerologie uns weismachen will. Springer, p.245. ISBN 3764359781. 
  3. ^ Martin Ohm at the Mathematics Genealogy Project].
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