Mathematician:Johann Gustav Hermes

Mathematician

German mathematician best known for his attempted construction of the regular $65 \, 537$-gon.

Recent research suggests that there may be mistakes in this construction.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 20 June 1846 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad in Russia)
• Died: 8 June 8 1912 in Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Construction of Regular $65 \,537$-gon

Publications

• 1879: Zurückführung des Problems der Kreistheilung auf lineare Gleichungen (für Primzahlen von der Form $2m + 1$) ("Reduction of the problem of cyclotomy on linear equations (for prime numbers of the form $2m + 1$)")

• 1894: Über die Teilung des Kreises in $65537$ gleiche Teile ("About the division of the circle into $65537$ equal pieces") (Gött. Nachr. Vol. 3: pp. 170 – 186)