Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (* May 30, 1800 in Jena, † March 12, 1834 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German mathematician.

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach was born as the son of Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and was a professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium in Erlangen. During his studies he was Renonce of the homeland of Ansbach, was co-founder in 1817 of the old Erlanger fraternity and joined in 1820 the old fraternity at Freiburg.

In May 1824 he fell into the Demagogenverfolgung and was arrested and taken to Munich. In prison, he made ​​two suicide attempts. In May 1825 examination procedure was set against him and he dismissed as innocent. As adhesion consequences but broke no later than 1827, at least temporarily manic depression from.

According to him, the so-called Feuerbach circle of a triangle, which occurs in the first of the two treatises named.

Publications

  • Properties of some remarkable points of the rectilinear triangle and more determined by her lines and figures. An analytical trigonometric treatise; Nuremberg 1822
  • Plan to analytical studies of the triangular pyramid; Nuremberg 1827
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