Jakob Philipp Kulik was an Austrian mathematician, born in 1793 in Lemberg, now Lviv, then part of the Austrian Empire. He attended the philosophy faculty of the university there and began to study law, but mathematics fascinated him more and he never completed the law degree. He wrote textbooks on mathematics and mechanics, and from 1817 he also taught astronomy at the Joanneum in Graz. He is best known for his construction of massive factor tables, the result of a twenty-year hobby, which cover all numbers up to 100,000,000 in a manuscript that was never published. He died in Prague on 28 February 1863.
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was an Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables.
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He attended the Philosophy Faculty of Lviv University and, after graduating, began to study law at the university.
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Kulik's greatest achievement was the construction of these factor tables
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