Gerhard Christoph Hermann Vechtmann (born April 10, 1817, died August 2, 1857) was a German mathematician and teacher.
Vechtmann was born in Wittmund in the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of a preacher. He attended the rectors' school there from the age of 10 to 15, and then spent three years at the Gymnasium in Aurich. After his school education, he studied mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin and Göttingen. In Göttingen he became a member of the pedagogical seminary and taught at the Gymnasium, where he was appointed to the Ritterakademie in Lüneburg in 1841. With a work on Lemniskaten he promoted 1843 in Göttingen to the doctor of philosophy. At the end of 1845 he took a position as a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences at the unified scholar and bail school in Eutin. In 1848 he became a subrector at the scholar's school in Meldorf, and in 1856 he became a rector and second teacher at the newly established Realgymnasium in Rendsburg. On July 18, 1857, he and his wife and children left Rendsburg to leave his mother-in-law, when his health suddenly deteriorated, and he died after a three-day illness on August 2
In his dissertation De curvis lemniscatis, Vechtmann investigated the lemmniscates of Bernoulli and discovered a relationship between specific angles. Edit WorksQualtext Edit source text Standard data (person): GND: 137027427 (PICA, AKS) | VIAF: 81274900 | Wikipedia People Search
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