Mathematician:Albrecht Dürer

Mathematician
German painter, printmaker and theorist whose theoretical treatises involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions. His most famous and most-discussed work is probably his engraving.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 21 May 1471 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
 * Died: 6 April 1528 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire

Theorems and Definitions

 * Dürer Graph
 * Dürer's Solid
 * Dürer's Magic Square

Publications

 * 1525: ("Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler"), usually referred to as Four Books on Measurement
 * 1528: Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion ("Four Books on Human Proportion") (posthumous)