Mathematician:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt

Mathematician

German mathematician best known for his book Geometrie der Lage, an important work in the development of the discipline of projective geometry.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 24 January 1798 in Free Imperial City of Rothenburg (now Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany)
• Died: 1 June 1867 in Erlangen, Bavaria (now Germany)

Publications

• 1845: De numeris Bernoullianis
• 1847: Geometrie der Lage
• 1856-60: Beiträge zur Geometrie der Lage

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Karl Georg Christian von Staudt": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1952: T. Ewan Faulkner: Projective Geometry (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Introduction: The Propositions of Incidence: $1.1$: Historical Note