- Jakob Hermann
:"Another notable Jacob Hermann was the Dutch theologian
Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609)."Jakob Hermann (
16 July 1678 -11 July 1733 ) was a mathematician who worked on problems inclassical mechanics . He appears to have been the first to show that theLaplace-Runge-Lenz vector is aconstant of motion for particles acted upon by an inverse-squarecentral force . [cite journal| last = Hermann | first = Jakob | authorlink = Jakob Hermann | year = 1710 | title = d’investigare l’Orbite de’ Pianeti, nell’ipotesi che le forze centrali o pure le gravit´a delgi stessi Pianeti sono in ragione reciproca de’ quadrati delle distanze, che i medesimi tengono dal Centro, a cui si dirigono le forze stesse | journal = Giornale de Letterati D'Italia | volume = 2 | pages = 447–467] [cite journal| last = Hermann | first = Jakob | authorlink = Jakob Hermann | year = 1710 | title = Extrait d'une lettre de M. Herman à M. Bernoulli datée de Padoüe le 12. Juillet 1710 | journal = Histoire de l'academie royale des sciences (Paris) | volume = 1732 | pages = 519–521]Hermann received his initial training from
Jacob Bernoulli and graduated with a degree in 1695. He became a member of the Berlin Academy in 1701. He was appointed to a chair in mathematics in Padua in 1707, but moved to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder in 1713, and thence to St. Petersburg in 1724. Finally, he returned to Basel in 1731 to take a chair in ethics and natural law.Hermann was elected to the "Académie Royale des Sciences" (Paris) in 1733, the year of his death.
Hermann was a distant relative of
Leonhard Euler .References
External links
*MacTutor Biography|id=Hermann
* [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Forgery_2.html MacTutor summary of the Leibniz letter controversy]
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