Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
Born30 May 1800 (1800-05-30)
Died12 March 1834 (1834-03-13) (aged 33)
Erlangen, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materAlbert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Known forFeuerbach's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Basel
Notes

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (30 May 1800 12 March 1834) was a German geometer and the son of legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and the brother of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. After receiving his doctorate at age 22, he became a professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium at Erlangen. In 1822 he wrote a small book on mathematics noted mainly for a theorem on the nine-point circle, which is now known as Feuerbach's theorem. In 1827 he introduced homogeneous coordinates, independently of Möbius.