Karl von Staudt

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Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (born January 24, 1798 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , † June 1, 1867 in Erlangen ) was a German mathematician .

Life

He was the son of the Rothenburg city judge Christian von Staudt. Staudt studied at the University of Göttingen with Carl Friedrich Gauß , where he dealt with number theory ( circle division and Bernoulli numbers ). He was a teacher at the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg and at the first municipal and then state polytechnic school in Nuremberg (including Bernhard Gugler ). Most recently, he was full professor of mathematics at the University of Erlangen from 1835 to 1867 .

After Jean-Victor Poncelet and Jakob Steiner, he expanded projective geometry , detaching the concepts of geometry from all metric aids ( v. Staudt conic section ) and creating a completely new conception of the imaginary elements in geometry . Staudt also created the original ideas for graphic statics .

In 1863 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The asteroid (30417) Staudt was named after him.

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SURNAME Staudt, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staudt, Karl Georg Christian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg ob der Tauber
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1867
Place of death gain