Christian Wiener

Christian Wiener
Born	December 7, 1826(1826-12-07) Darmstadt, Germany
Died	July 31, 1896(1896-07-31) (aged 69) Karlsruhe, Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alma mater	University of Giessen
Known for	Brownian motion

Ludwig Christian Wiener (7 December 1826 Darmstadt – 31 July 1896 Karlsruhe) was a German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry. Wiener was also a physicist and philosopher. In 1863, he was the first person to identify qualitatively the internal molecular cause of Brownian motion.

Selected publications

Lehrbuch der darstellenden Geometrie, 2 Bände, Teubner, Leipzig 1884, 1887, online auf archiv.org: [1], [2]
Die ersten Sätze der Erkenntniß, insbesondere das Gesetz der Ursächlichkeit und die Wirklichkeit der Außenwelt, Berlin, Lüderitz 1874
Die Freiheit des Willens, Darmstadt, Brill 1894
Die Grundzüge der Weltordnung, Leipzig, Winter 1863, [3]
Über Vielecke und Vielflache, Teubner 1864

References

Thompson, D W., 1992. On Growth and Form. Cambridge Univ. Press. Abridged edition by John Tyler Bonner, p. 45. ISBN 0521437768, ISBN 9780521437769.Online in Google Books
Christian Wiener at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Christian Wiener", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiener_Christian.html .
Otto Wiener, "Christian Wiener zum 100. Geburtstag", Naturwissenschaften Bd.15, 1927, Issue 4.

Persondata
Name	Wiener, Christian
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	7 December 1826
Place of birth	Darmstadt, Germany
Date of death	31 July 1896
Place of death	Karlsruhe, Germany