About David Rytz
Lived 1801 – 1868 (aged 66). David Rytz was a Swiss mathematician.
David Rytz von Brugg (1 April 1801, in Bucheggberg – 25 March 1868, in Aarau) was a Swiss mathematician and teacher.
Life Rytz von Brugg was son of a priest and studied mathematics at Göttingen and Leipzig. He had teaching positions at various cities, one of them 1835 until 1862 at Aarau, where he was „Professor der Mathematik an der Gewerbeschule zu Aarau“.
Merits Rytz von Brugg is famous for a geometrical method which is known as Rytz’s axis construction. This classical procedure retrieves the semi-axes of an Ellipse from any pair of conjugate diameters. This method is known since 1845, when it was published within a paper by Leopold Moosbrugger.
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Who was David Rytz?
Swiss mathematician and teacher
When was David Rytz born?
David Rytz was born on 1 April 1801 in Bucheggberg.
When did David Rytz die?
David Rytz died on 25 March 1868 in Aarau.
What was David Rytz's occupation?
David Rytz was a mathematician.
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David Rytz was Swiss.
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