Johann Samuel König (31 July 1712 – 21 August 1757) was a German mathematician.

Biography

Johann Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean or John; – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Le ...

instructed both König and

Pierre Louis Maupertuis Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; ; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the ...

as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for his disagreements with

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...

, concerning the

principle of least action The stationary-action principle – also known as the principle of least action – is a variational principle that, when applied to the '' action'' of a mechanical system, yields the equations of motion for that system. The principle states tha ...

. He is also remembered as a tutor to Émilie du Châtelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.''The Parsimonious Universe'' by Stefan Hildebrandt & Anthony Tromba, Springer-Verlag, 1996, p. 33 note 2.

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File:Acta Eruditorum - V geometria monete, 1735 – BEIC 13454660.jpg, Illustration about the article ''De nova quadam facili delineatu trajectoria...'' from ''

Acta Eruditorum (from Latin: ''Acts of the Erudite'') was the first scientific journal of the German-speaking lands of Europe, published from 1682 to 1782. History ''Acta Eruditorum'' was founded in 1682 in Leipzig by Otto Mencke, who became its first editor, ...

'', 1735 File:Acta Eruditorum - I geometria, 1738 – BEIC 13460219.jpg, Illustration about the article ''De centro inertiae...'' from ''Acta Eruditorum'', 1738

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* 18th-century German mathematicians Members of the French Academy of Sciences 1712 births 1757 deaths People from Büdingen Academic staff of the University of Franeker {{Germany-mathematician-stub