Karl Adams (1811 in Merscheid – 14 November 1849, in
Winterthur
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) was a
Swiss
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mathematician and teacher who specialised in
synthetic geometry
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.
Publications
* ''Lehre von den Transversalen'', 1843
* ''Die harmonischen Verhältnisse'', 1845
* ''Die merkwürdigen Eigenschaften des geradlinigen Dreiecks'', 1846
*
Das Malfattische Problem', 1846 and 1848, on the
Malfatti circles
* ''Geometrische Aufgaben mit besonderer Rücksicht auf geometrische ConstruCtion'', 1847 and 1849
Sources
* ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' –
online version at
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19th-century Swiss mathematicians
Swiss schoolteachers
Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians
1811 births
1849 deaths
19th-century Swiss educators
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