No. 4 (2026): Issue № 4
On the Cover – Georg Simon Ohm.
Source: Ohm G.S. Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet. Berlin: Bei T.H. Riemann, 1827, 245 p.
200 years ago, in 1826, Georg Simon Ohm, a mathematics teacher in Cologne, formulated a fundamental principle in electrical engineering – the linear relationship between current and electric voltage in a section of a circuit. The following year, 1827, his book "A Galvanic Circuit Developed Mathematically" was published, where he deduced the law U = I R. Ohm's discovery was strongly opposed by the German scientific community, which was dominated by natural philosophy, which considered the mathematical description of physical phenomena to be an unacceptable simplification. Because of this harassment, the scientist was fired from his job and found himself isolated and poor for many years. Nevertheless, the author wrote: «May the benevolent viewer deign to accept my work with the same love for the subject from which it was born!"
