Jakob Steiner Scientist

Jakob Steiner (18 March 1796 – 1 April 1863) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry.

Personal facts

Jakob Steiner
Birth dateMarch 18, 1796
Birth place
Canton of Bern , Utzenstorf
Citizenship
Switzerland
Date of deathApril 01, 1863
Place of death
Bern
Known for
Poncelet–Steiner theorem

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Field of study
Mathematics

Topical connections

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Jakob Steiner on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://library.thinkquest.org/22584/temh3028.htm
  2. http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence
  3. http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/convergence/the-sagacity-of-circles-a-history-of-the-isoperimetric-problem-the-work-of-jakob-steiner
  4. http://www.springerlink.com/content/p01527115762n730