Johann Samuel König

Johann Samuel König (1712 to 1757) was a German mathematician of the early eighteenth century. He was taught by Johann Bernoulli, who instructed him during the same period as Pierre Louis Maupertuis. König is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler over the principle of least action, a quarrel that carried his name beyond mathematical circles, and as a tutor to Émilie du Châtelet, one of the few women physicists of the eighteenth century. He was born on 31 July 1712 and died on 21 August 1757. The English Wikipedia article is brief, so this entry states only that outline and claims no further results, posts or publications.