Mathematician:Albrecht Dürer

Mathematician

German painter, printmaker and theorist whose theoretical treatises involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.

His most famous and most-discussed work is probably his engraving Melencolia I.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 21 May 1471 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
• Died: 6 April 1528 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire

Theorems and Definitions

• Dürer Graph
• Dürer's Solid
• Dürer's Magic Square

Publications

• 1525: Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt ("Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler"), usually referred to as Four Books on Measurement
• 1528: Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion ("Four Books on Human Proportion") (posthumous)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Albrecht Dürer": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence