Mathematician:Magnus Georg Paucker

Mathematician

Russian astronomer and physicist best known for his construction of the regular $257$-gon using a compass and straightedge.

Nationality

Estonian (then part of the Russian Empire)

History

• Born: 26 November 1787 in Simuna, Estonia
• Died: 31 August 1855 in Jelgava, Latvia

Theorems and Definitions

• Construction of Regular $257$-Gon

Publications

• 1813 De nova explicatione phaenomeni elasticitatis corporum rigidorum

• 1822: Das regelmäßige Zweyhundersiebenundfunfzig-Eck im Kreise (Jahresverhandlungen der Kurländischen Gesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst Vol. 2: p. 188)

Also known as

His full name is sometimes given as Magnus-Georg Andreyevich Pauker, which in Russian is Магнус-Георг Андреевич Паукер

His name is usually seen transliteraed into German as Magnus Georg von Paucker.