Mathematician:Georg Mohr

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Mathematician

Danish mathematician and geometer now famous for proving in $1672$ that any geometrical construction that can be made with compasses and straightedge can also be achieved by using only compasses. This result was overlooked at the time. Lorenzo Mascheroni made the same discovery in $1797$. However, it was only in $1928$ that Mohr's priority came to light.

Other books of his are rumoured but none have come to direct light.


Nationality

Danish


History

  • Born: 1 April 1640, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Died: 26 Jan 1697, Kieslingswalde (near Görlitz), Germany


Theorems and Definitions


Publications

  • 1672: Euclides Danicus


Also known as

Born Jørgen Mohr, latinised as Georg(ius) Mohr.


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