The German physicist Georg Simon
Ohm (1789 -1854), who later became famous for having established the
fundamental relationship between voltage, current, and resistance, and
thereby founding electrical circuit analysis (all based on what has ever
since Ohm been known as "Ohm's Law"), was solidly educated in
mathematics, physics, chemistry and philosophy by his very skilled autodidact
father. From 1800 to 1805 Ohm attended the Erlangen Gymnasium, after
which he attended the University of Erlangen for three years, until his
father withdrew him and placed him in exile in Switzerland, because he was so
dissatisfied with him wasting his scientific abilities; -Georg Ohm was
primarily interested in dancing, billiards and ice skating. He then became a
mathematic....