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   Jakob Steiner (18 March 1796 – 1 April 1863) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry . Life. Steiner was born in the village of Utzenstorf, Canton of Bern. At 18, he became a pupil of Heinrich Pestalozzi and afterwards studied at Heidelberg. Then, he went to Berlin, earning a livelihood there, as in Heidelberg, by tutoring.

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   18 March 1796. Utzenstorf, Switzerland. Died. 1 April 1863. Bern, Switzerland. Summary. Jakob Steiner was one of the greatest contributors to projective geometry. View four larger pictures. Biography. Jakob Steiner's parents were Anna Barbara Weber (1757-1832) and Niklaus Steiner (1752-1826).

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   Apr 9, 2024 · Jakob Steiner (born March 18, 1796, Utzenstorf, Switzerland—died April 1, 1863, Bern) was a Swiss mathematician who was one of the founders of modern synthetic and projective geometry. As the son of a small farmer, Steiner had no early schooling and did not learn to write until he was 14.

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   May 29, 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Jakob Steiner, a Swiss mathematician who discovered the organic unity of geometry and taught with Pestalozzi's methods. Find out his achievements, publications, legacy, and controversies.

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   Learn how the Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner (1796–1863) used synthetic methods to solve the isoperimetric problem in 1842. See his ingenious construction and argument based on the duality of two statements and the properties of right triangles.

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   Who was Jakob Steiner?

   • Jakob Steiner (18 March 1796 – 1 April 1863) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry . Steiner was born in the village of Utzenstorf, Canton of Bern. At 18, he became a pupil of Heinrich Pestalozzi and afterwards studied at Heidelberg. Then, he went to Berlin, earning a livelihood there, as in Heidelberg, by tutoring.

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   • Jakob Steiner was one of the greatest contributors to projective geometry. Jakob Steiner's parents were Anna Barbara Weber (1757-1832) and Niklaus Steiner (1752-1826). Anna and Niklaus were married on 28 January 1780 and they had eight children.

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   How did Steiner contribute to geometry?

   • Steiner made several important contributions to geometry, including the Steiner surface (which has an infinite number of conic sections) and the Poncelet-Steiner theorem, which states that only one given circle and one straight edge are required for any Euclidean construction.

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   What did Steiner do at Berlin?

   • At Berlin, Steiner became friendly with Abel, Crelle, and Jacobi: and together they introduced a fresh, new current into mathematics. Their efforts were considerably aided by Crelle’s founding of the Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, to which Steiner contributed sixty-two articles.

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   Jakob Steiner (1796–1863) was a Swiss mathematician who specialized in geometry. Considered one of the greatest pure geometers who ever lived, he introduced the concept of geometric forms, perfected the theory of duality in geometry, and contributed much to the development of modern projective geometry.

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    Jakob Steiner. (1796–1863). One of the greatest geometers in history was the Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner. He was one of the founders of projective geometry, a branch of mathematics dealing with the relationships between geometric figures and their projected images on a surface or line.