About Carl Anton Bretschneider
Lived 1808 – 1878 (aged 70). Carl Anton Bretschneider was a mathematician, historian of mathematics, notary and jurist.
Bretschneider's formula allows for the calculation of the area of a general quadrilateral if the lengths of all sides are known. Carl Anton Bretschneider (27 May 1808 – 6 November 1878) was a mathematician from Gotha, Germany. Bretschneider worked in geometry, number theory, and history of geometry. He also worked on logarithmic integrals and mathematical tables. He was one of the first mathematicians to use the symbol for Euler's constant when he published his 1837 paper. He is best known for his discovery of Bretschneider's formula for the area of a general quadrilateral on a plane,
where, and are the sides of the quadrilateral, is the semiperimeter, and and are two opposite angles.
He is the son of Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider, a theologian.
Publications Carl Anton Bretschneider (1837). "Theoriae logarithmi integralis lineamenta nova". Crelle Journal, vol.17, p. 257-285 (submitted 1835)
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Carl Anton Bretschneider was born on 27 May 1808 in Schneeberg.
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Carl Anton Bretschneider died on 6 November 1878 in Gotha.
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Carl Anton Bretschneider was a mathematician, historian of mathematics, notary and jurist.
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Carl Anton Bretschneider's recorded nationality: Kingdom of Saxony.
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