Nationality Prussian Fields Mathematics | Role Mathematician Name Friedrich Richelot | |
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Born 6 November 1808Konigsberg, Prussia ( 1808-11-06 ) Institutions University of Konigsberg Doctoral students Joannes MeyerCarl NeumannHeinrich Schroter Died March 31, 1875, Konigsberg Similar People Carl Gustav Jacob Ja, Carl Neumann, Otto Hesse | ||
Alma mater University of Konigsberg |
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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