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Jakob Steiner
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1796-03-18 ) 18 March 1796, Utzenstorf , Canton of Bern , Old Swiss Confederacy
- Died
- 1 April 1863 (1863-04-01) (aged 67), Bern , Switzerland
- Known for
- Euclidean geometry , Projective geometry , Synthetic geometry
- Fields
- Mathematics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jakob
- Family name
- Steiner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Utzenstorf
- Place of death
- Bern
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- German
- Student of
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- JakobSteiner.jpg
- Work location
- Berlin
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- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- date of birth
- 1796-03-18
- date of death
- 1863-04-01
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- Jakob Steiner
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Jakob Steiner
- student
- Leopold Kronecker
- writing language
- German
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- John Reid
- relative
- Carl Friedrich Geiser
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Utzenstorf
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Encyclopedic overview
Jakob Steiner (18 March 1796 – 1 April 1863) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry.
Life
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