Category:Definitions/Named Definitions/Tschirnhaus
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This category contains definitions named for Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.
German mathematician more famous for inventing a brand of porcelain.
Worked on techniques in algebra, and also investigated catacaustic curves.
Published what he thought was a solution to the quintic equation in $1683$, but Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz pointed out that it was fallacious.
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