Johann Samuel König (31 July 1712 â 21 August 1757) was a German mathematician.
Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action. He is also remembered as a tutor to ÃÂmilie du Châtelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.