Mathematician:Jakob Steiner

Swiss mathematician who worked extensively (and mainly) in geometry.

He made an important contribution to combinatorics with his Steiner system, a kind of block design.

Nationality
Swiss

History

 * Born: 18 March 1796, Utzenstorf, Bern, Switzerland.
 * Died: 1 April 1863, Bern, Switzerland.

Theorems and Definitions

 * Steiner System
 * Steiner Surface
 * Steiner's Problem
 * Steiner Tree Problem
 * Steiner Chain
 * Poncelet-Steiner Theorem
 * Parallel Axes Theorem
 * Steiner-Lehmus Theorem
 * Steiner Inellipse