Johann Heinrich Lambert

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Mathematician
gptkb:Scientist
gptkbp:alma_mater gptkb:University_of_Strasbourg
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Berlin_Academy
gptkb:Prussian_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:birth_date 1728-08-26
gptkbp:born_in gptkb:Mülhausen
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:Lambert_W_function
theory of functions
Lambert's cosine law
theory of light
development of calculus
theory of probability
theory of irrational numbers
development of hyperbolic functions
gptkbp:death_date 1777-09-25
gptkbp:field gptkb:Mathematics
gptkb:astronomy
gptkb:optics
gptkb:philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Johann Heinrich Lambert
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Andrew_Gleason
gptkb:Ian_Stewart
gptkb:Michael_Atiyah
gptkb:Jean-Pierre_Serre
gptkb:Niels_Henrik_Abel
gptkb:Andrey_Kolmogorov
gptkb:David_Hilbert
gptkb:John_Nash
gptkb:Bernhard_Riemann
gptkb:Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
gptkb:Georg_Cantor
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Andrew_Wiles
gptkb:Felix_Klein
gptkb:Henri_Poincaré
gptkb:Mary_Cartwright
gptkb:Terence_Tao
gptkb:Emmy_Noether
gptkb:John_H._Conway
gptkb:Richard_Dedekind
gptkb:David_Mumford
gptkb:Hermann_Minkowski
gptkb:Augustin-Louis_Cauchy
gptkb:Persi_Diaconis
gptkb:John_Stillwell
gptkb:Paul_Erdős
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Leonhard_Euler
gptkbp:invention gptkb:Lambert's_theorem
Lambert's cosine law
Lambertian reflectance
Lambert's formula
Lambert's law of absorption
Lambert's series
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:Lambert_W_function
gptkb:Lambert's_theorem
Lambert's cosine law
contributions to geometry
theory of light
Lambert's proof of the irrationality of pi
contributions to the theory of numbers
work on the measurement of light
work on the nature of space and time
gptkbp:member gptkb:Berlin_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:German
Swiss
gptkbp:notable_work Die Grundlagen der Geometrie
Photometria
Anmerkungen über die Geometrie
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Mathematician
gptkb:Physicist
gptkb:astronomy
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Mülhausen
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Berlin
gptkbp:wrote Traité de la lumière
Die Grundlagen der Geometrie
Photometria
Anmerkungen über die Geometrie
Essai sur la théorie des nombres
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Polytechnic_Institute_of_Zurich
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4