Mathematician:Georg Mohr

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. 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

 * Mohr-Mascheroni Theorem (independently of )

Publications

 * 1672: Euclides Danicus

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