Gustav de Vries

Gustav de Vries ( born January 22, 1866 in Amsterdam, † 16 December 1934 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch mathematician. It dealt among other things with the propagation of waves and compiled with Diederik Korteweg, the Korteweg -de Vries equation.

Gustav de Vries studied at the University of Amsterdam. In the years 1892-1893 he taught at the Military Academy in Breda, in the years 1893 to 1894 in Alkmaar. In 1894 he received his doctorate in Diederik Korteweg 's supervision with the work Bijdrage dead de kennis the long golven ( Contribution to the knowledge of the long waves ), which contains the Korteweg -de Vries equation. After John Scott Russell had such waves observed in 1834, the theoretical proof of their existence has long been controversial ( first showed this Joseph Boussinesq ) and Korteweg and de Vries showed this in their model. From 1894 until his retirement in 1931 he worked at the trade school in Haarlem en HBS (HBS stands for grammar school ). In all, he published three mathematical articles, all in the 1890s.

Writings

• With Korteweg, On the change of form of long waves advancing in a Rectangular Canal and on a New Type of Long Stationary Waves. Philosophical Magazine, 5th series, 36, 1895, pp. 422-443