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Jakob Hermann

1678 - 1733

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Jakob Hermann (16 July 1678 – 11 July 1733) was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He is the author of Phoronomia, an early treatise on mechanics in Latin, which has been translated by Ian Bruce in 2015-16. In 1729, he proclaimed that it was as easy to graph a locus on the polar coordinate system as it was to graph it on the Cartesian coordinate system. He appears to have been the first to show that the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector is a constant of motion for particles acted upon by an inverse-square central force. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob Hermann is the 630th most popular mathematician (down from 535th in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 359th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jakob Hermann ranks 630 out of 1,004. Before him are Alfred Pringsheim, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Serge Lang, Willem 's Gravesande, Grete Hermann, and Dmitri Egorov. After him are Jean Frédéric Frenet, Alfréd Haar, Al-Qalqashandi, Douglas Hartree, Dinostratus, and Polyaenus of Lampsacus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1678, Jakob Hermann ranks 12. Before him are Filippo Juvarra, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Peter Lacy, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, and Adrien Maurice de Noailles. After him are Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, and Abraham Darby I. Among people deceased in 1733, Jakob Hermann ranks 14. Before him are Nicolas Coustou, Robert de Visée, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Bernard Picart. After him are Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob Hermann ranks 405 out of 1,015. Before him are Elisabeth Kopp (1936), Robert Ballaman (1926), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Corina Casanova (1956), Antonio Ciseri (1821), and Stéphane Chapuisat (1969). After him are Pierre Viret (1511), Otto Binswanger (1852), Josef Munzinger (1791), Mick Schumacher (1999), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jakob Hermann ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), and Johann Baptist Cysat (1585). After him are Ludwig Schläfli (1814), Georges de Rham (1903), Nicolas Fuss (1755), Armand Borel (1923), and Martin Hairer (1975).

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