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Jacob Struve

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Jacob Struve, also written Jakob, was a German mathematician and the father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, born at Horst in Holstein on 21 November 1755 and dead at Altona on 2 April 1841. The youngest of four children, he worked in the fields as a boy but studied at the Christianeum High School in Altona and from 1775 at Göttingen, where he attended the popular mathematics lectures of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. He became a school principal in Bückeburg in 1783 and in Hanover from 1784, and from 1794 to 1827 directed the Christianeum. He kept studying algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, publishing more than twenty articles between 1800 and 1827, and took a doctorate at Kiel in 1813.

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Biography
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Male 1
Birth Year
1755 1
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Algebra, Branches of Mathematics
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Geometry, Branches of Mathematics
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Number Theory, Branches of Mathematics
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Probability and Statistics, Branches of Mathematics
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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Mathematicians
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Jacob Struve (also Jakob Struve; November 21, 1755 – April 2, 1841) was a German mathematician and father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve.
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    Jacob Struve (also Jakob Struve; November 21, 1755, April 2, 1841) was a German mathematician and father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve.
  • Biography, birth
    Jacob Struve (also Jakob Struve; November 21, 1755, April 2, 1841) was a German mathematician and father of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve.
  • Biography, gender
    He was the youngest of the four children of Johann Struve (1710, February 20, 1778) and Abel Strüven (November 23, 1719, November 18, 1762).
  • In Branch: Algebra, Lead, field of work
    In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, which were based on the works of Kästner, Leonhard Euler and Georg Simon Klügel.
  • In Branch: Geometry, Lead, field of work
    In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, which were based on the works of Kästner, Leonhard Euler and Georg Simon Klügel.
  • In Branch: Probability and Statistics, Lead, field of work
    In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, which were based on the works of Kästner, Leonhard Euler and Georg Simon Klügel.
  • In Branch: Number Theory, Lead, field of work
    In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, which were based on the works of Kästner, Leonhard Euler and Georg Simon Klügel.
  • Mentored By: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Body, teacher
    Starting from 1775, he entered the University of Göttingen (some sources say he studied at the University of Kiel), and attended mathematics lectures of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, which were rather popular among students, including Struve.
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