Friedrich Julius Richelot

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1808 – 1875

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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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