Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin

Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin
Born1846
Salantai
DiedFebruary 21 [O.S. February 9] 1875
Saint Petesburg, Russian Empire
Alma materJena University
Occupation(s)Mathematician, inventor

Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin (Hebrew: יום טוב ליפמן ליפקין, Russian: Липман Израилевич Липкин; 1846 – February 21 [O.S. February 9] 1875) was a Lithuanian Jewish mathematician and inventor. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the father of the Musar movement.

Lipkin is best known for the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage which was partly named after him.[1][2] The device is also known as the "Lipkin parallelogram".[3] Lipkin discovered the linkage independent from Peaucellier in 1871.[1] A model of Lipkin's invention was exhibited at the exposition at Vienna in 1873, and was later secured from the inventor by the Museum of the Institute of Engineers of Ways of Communication, St. Petersburg.

  1. ^ a b Mathematical tutorial of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage
  2. ^ How to draw a straight line by Daina Taimina
  3. ^ Lipkin, in 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.