Friedrich Richelot
| Friedrich Julius Richelot | |
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Portrait on Richelot's tombstone
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| Born |
6 November 1808 Königsberg, Prussia |
| Died | 31 March 1875 (aged 66) Königsberg, Prussia |
| Nationality | Prussian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Königsberg |
| Alma mater | University of Königsberg |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
| Doctoral students |
Joannes Meyer Carl Neumann Heinrich Schröter |
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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