Friedrich Julius Richelot
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1808 – 1875
Who was Friedrich Julius Richelot?
Friedrich Julius Richelot was a German mathematician, born in Königsberg. He was a student of Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.
He was promoted in 1831 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Königsberg with a dissertation on the division of the circle into 257 equal parts and was a professor there.
Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge.
In 1825 he joined the Corps Masovia.
He died in Königsberg in 1875.
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- Born
- Nov 6, 1808
Königsberg - Nationality
- Germany
- Prussia
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 31, 1875
Königsberg
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on July 23, 2013
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