Theodor Reye
Mathematician, Author
1838 – 1919
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Who was Theodor Reye?
Karl Theodor Reye was a German mathematician. He contributed to geometry, particularly projective geometry and synthetic geometry. He is best known for his introduction of configurations in the second edition of his book, Geometrie der Lage. The Reye configuration of 12 points, 12 planes, and 16 lines is named after him.
Reye also developed a novel solution to the following three-dimensional extension of the problem of Apollonius: Construct all possible spheres that are simultaneously tangent to four given spheres.
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- Born
- Jun 20, 1838
Germany - Also known as
- Karl Theodor Reye
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Died
- Jul 2, 1919
Würzburg
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on July 23, 2013
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