Martin Ohm was a German mathematician, born in Erlangen on 6 May 1792 into a family of locksmiths, and the younger brother of the physicist Georg Ohm. He attempted to put mathematics on to a rigorous basis. His book on maxima and minima, published in 1825, contains a section on the calculus of variations and may be regarded as a successor to Dirksen's treatise on that subject of 1823. He was a fine teacher, and a number of doctoral students at the University of Berlin benefited from his teaching. He examined the doctoral dissertation of Lazarus Fuchs in 1858 together with Kummer. He died in Berlin on 1 April 1872.
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was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm.
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He was the brother of the better known Georg Ohm.
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The portion of the book extending over pages 87 - 127 is called Calculus of Variations.
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(May 6, 1792 in Erlangen, April 1, 1872 in Berlin)
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was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm.
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