Mathematician:Friedrich Julius Richelot

Mathematician

German mathematician best known for his construction of the regular $257$-gon.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 6 November 1808, Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad in Russia)
• Died: 31 March 1875, Königsberg, Prussia

Theorems and Definitions

• Construction of Regular $257$-gon

Publications

• 1832: De resolutione algebraica aequationis $x^{257} = 1$, sive de divisione circuli per bisectionem anguli septies repetitam in partes $257$ inter se aequales commentatio coronata (J. Reine Angew. Math. Vol. 9: pp. 146 – 358)