Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 in Königsberg, East Prussia – April 26, 1951 in Munich) was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist.
Education
Sommerfeld was the son of a practical physician. After finishing school in 1886, he started studying mathematics at the University of Königsberg. In 1891 he wrote his doctorate thesis about arbitrary functions in mathematical physics. Afterwards he had to serve in the army.
Then he went to Göttingen. He became assistant at the institute for mineralogy, but was still interested in mathematical physics.
Works
- Theorie des Kreisels. 4 volumes (with Felix Klein), Leipzig 1897-1910
- Atombau und Spektrallinien. Braunschweig 1919
- Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik
- Vol. 1: Mechanik. Leipzig 1943
- Vol. 2: Mechanik der deformierbaren Medien. Leipzig 1945
- Vol. 3: Elektrodynamik. Wiesbaden 1948
- Vol. 4: Optik. Wiesbaden 1950
- Vol. 5: Thermodynamik und Statistik. Wiesbaden 1952
- Vol. 6: Partielle Differentialgleichungen der Physik. Leipzig 1945
Arnold Sommerfeld Media
Sommerfeld c. 1922–1923
Grave of Sommerfeld on the Munich Nordfriedhof
Title page to Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines (1923), translated by Henry Brose
