(1775-1836)
He was born on January 20, 1775, in Lyon, France. He died on June 10, 1836, in Marseilles, France.
Very young, Ampère has demonstrated great mathematical abilities. At twelve, Ampère knew all the mathematics of his day. Always confident in his own abilities, he began to develop his own mathematical ideas, beginning to write and develop his thoughts.
At the age of 13 he submitted a paper to the Lyon Academy. It was a solution to determine a line with the same length as an arc of a circle. The work was not published, because the treatment required infinitesimal calculus, something that Ampère did not yet know.
He did not go to any kind of traditional school at the time. His education was restricted to studies in his own home, at Poleymieyx. In this way, Ampère thought his thoughts were original.
He taught physics and chemistry at Bourg, and in spite of that Amper continued his research in mathematics. The result was his first work in 1802, a treatise on probability, The Mathematical Theory of Games, submitted to the Paris Academy in 1803. Laplace noted an error in this work and sent a letter the Ampère. The job has been corrected and resubmitted and printed.
Ampère's most important publication on electricity and magnetism was published in 1826. It is called Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience, a mathematical treatment given to the discovery of the Danish physicist Hans Christian Orsted in electromagnetism which resulted in deduction of the formula now known as the Ampère law, published around 1825.
This theory was central to the development of the nineteenth century in electricity and magnetism. From it, Faraday, Maxwell, and Thompson developed other theories.
The electric current unit, Ampère, was awarded in his honor.