- Helge von Koch
Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (
January 25 ,1870 -March 11 ,1924 ) was a Swedishmathematician , who gave his name to the famousfractal known as theKoch snowflake , which was one of the earliestfractal curves to have been described.He was born into a family of
Swedish nobility . His grandfather,Nils Samuel von Koch (1801-1881), was the Attorney-General ("Justitiekansler ") ofSweden . His father,Richert Vogt von Koch (1838-1913) was aLieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Horse Guards of Sweden.von Koch wrote several papers on
number theory . One of his results was a 1901 theorem proving that theRiemann hypothesis is equivalent to a strengthened form of theprime number theorem .He described the Koch curve in a 1904 paper entitled "On a continuous curve without tangents constructible from elementary geometry" ("original French title: "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire").
References
* "The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal" (Mortimer-Percy Volume) by the
Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (1911), pages 250 - 251
* "Classics on Fractals", Gerald Edgar, ed. (Addison-Wesley, 1993) contains an English translation of the paper "On a continuous curve...".External links
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