About Karl Adams
Lived 1811 – 1849 (aged 38). Karl Adams was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, secondary school teacher and teacher.
Karl Adams (1811 in Merscheid – 14 November 1849, in Winterthur) was a Swiss mathematician and teacher who specialised in synthetic geometry.
Publications Lehre von den Transversalen, 1843 Die harmonischen Verhältnisse, 1845 Die merkwürdigen Eigenschaften des geradlinigen Dreiecks, 1846 Das Malfattische Problem, 1846 and 1848, on the Malfatti circles Geometrische Aufgaben mit besonderer Rücksicht auf geometrische ConstruCtion, 1847 and 1849
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Who was Karl Adams?
Swiss mathematician (1811–1849)
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Karl Adams was born on 15 January 1811 in Merscheid.
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Karl Adams died on 14 November 1849 in Winterthur.
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Karl Adams was a mathematician, physicist, secondary school teacher and teacher.
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Karl Adams was Swiss.
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