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Hans Erik Eriksen

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Sep 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/10/96
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Does anybody know who "invented" the Neumann condition ?
I do not think it was von Neumann.

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U Lange

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Sep 18, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/18/96
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Hans Erik Eriksen (han...@aft.sn.no) wrote:
: Does anybody know who "invented" the Neumann condition ?

: I do not think it was von Neumann.

I am quite certain that it was either Carl Neumann (1882-1925) or his
father, Franz Neumann (1798-1895), but I don`t remember which of these
two.

BTW: there is a nice webpage at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland
with biographies of many mathematicians:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html

(However, I just checked it for Franz and Carl Neumann, but there is
nothing specific there about the Neumann condition. Both seem equally
possible from their work areas (Heat conduction, electrodynamics etc.)

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Ulrich Lange Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Alberta
la...@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G6, Canada

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