Georg Mohr
Jørgen Mohr (Latinised Georg(ius) Mohr; 1 April 1640 – 26 January 1697)compass and straightedge can also be done with compasses alone.
Biography
Mohr was born in
Cardano's formula for the roots of a cubic polynomial.[4]
While in the Netherlands, Mohr became a friend of
Christian V and hoped for a position in exchange, but was offered only a position as a shipyard supervisor, which he declined. He married Elizabeth von der Linde of Copenhagen on 19 July 1687, and soon after returned to Holland; their son, Peter Georg Mohrenthal, eventually settled in Dresden as a bookseller and publisher.[2][5] In 1695 he took a job with Tschirnhaus,[2] and spent his last few years as a guest in Tschirnhaus's house. He died in Kieslingswalde near Görlitz, Germany.[1]
The Georg Mohr competition, which is used to select Danish participants to the International Mathematical Olympiad, is named after Mohr.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Georg Mohr", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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- ^ MR 0825846.
- JSTOR 225067.
- ^ Official website for the Georg Mohr-Competition (in Danish), retrieved 27 June 2014.
Further reading
- Westfall, Richard S. (1995), Mohr, Georg, The Galileo Project
- "Mohr, Georg", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008.
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