Christian Wiener

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

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.

Wiener was the son of a judge and studied architecture and engineering in Giessen. After the state examination in 1848, he became a teacher at the "Höhere Gewerbeschule" in Darmstadt, today the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

The mathematician Hermann Wiener was his son.

Selected publications

• Lehrbuch der darstellenden Geometrie, 2 Bände, Teubner, Leipzig 1884, 1887, online at 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 0-521-43776-8, ISBN 978-0-521-43776-9.Online in Google Books
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Christian Wiener", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Otto Wiener, "Christian Wiener zum 100. Geburtstag", Naturwissenschaften Bd.15, 1927, Issue 4.