Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1708)

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

German mathematician, physician, and philosopher (1651–1708)

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus or Tschirnhauß was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann…