Friedrich Julius Richelot

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Nationality Prussian Fields Mathematics		Role Mathematician Name Friedrich Richelot

Born 6 November 1808 Konigsberg, Prussia ( 1808-11-06 ) Institutions University of Konigsberg Doctoral students Joannes Meyer Carl Neumann Heinrich Schroter Died March 31, 1875, Konigsberg Notable students Carl Neumann, Heinrich Schroter Similar People Carl Gustav Jacob Ja, Carl Neumann, Otto Hesse
Alma mater University of Konigsberg Doctoral advisor Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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.

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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.

Thesis

Friedrich Julius Richelot: De resolutione algebraica aequationis x²⁵⁷ = 1, sive de divisione circuli per bisectionem anguli septies repetitam in partes 257 inter se aequales commentatio coronata. In: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Nr. 9, 1832, S. 1–26, 146–161, 209–230, und 337–358.

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