Christian Heinrich von Nagel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German geometer
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Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Christian Heinrich von Nagel
- Christian Heinrich von Nagel (28 February 1803 in Stuttgart, Germany – 27 October 1882 in Ulm, Germany) was a German geometer. After attending the gymnasium, Nagel went in 1817 to Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.
- From 1821 to 1825, he took a four-year course of theology at the Tübinger Stift.
- Soon after his graduation, he became interested in mathematics.
- He became mathematics and science teacher at the Lyceum and at the Secondary school in Tübingen.
- Already in 1826, he earned doctorate at the local Faculty of Philosophy on a theme De triangulis rectangulis ex algebraica aequatione construendis (About right triangles construable from an algebraic equation).
- Until 1830, he held post of a private lecturer in Tübingen.
- In that year, he moved to Ulm where he had a better-paid job as a teacher at the Gymnasium in Ulm.
- Later he was rector of the affiliated Realschule.
- He was ennobled in 1875.His best known results are from triangle geometry.
- One of the notable triangle points, Nagel point, is named after him.
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