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František Josef Gerstner

was born 268 years ago

23 February 1756

František Josef Gerstner was a Czech mathematician, astronomer and engineer. He is famed for transforming the Prague School of Engineers into the Prague Polytechnic Institute in 1806. It is now the Polytechnic University of Prague. He also produced a non-linear wave solution, known today as Gerstner waves or trochoidal waves.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gerstner/