Johann Samuel Konig

Johann Samuel Konig (July 31, 1712 in Budingen – August 21, 1757 in Zuilenstein near Amerongen) was a mathematician. Johann Bernoulli instructed both Konig and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. Konig is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action. He is also remembered as a tutor to Emilie du Chatelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.