About Friedrich Julius Richelot
Lived 1808 – 1875 (aged 66). Friedrich Julius Richelot was a German mathematician and university teacher.
Friedrich Julius Richelot (6 November 1808 – 31 March 1875) 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 (see references) 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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German mathematician (1808–1875)
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Friedrich Julius Richelot was born on 6 November 1808 in Königsberg.
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Friedrich Julius Richelot died on 31 March 1875 in Königsberg.
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Friedrich Julius Richelot was a mathematician and university teacher.
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