Herbert William Richmond (born on the 17 July 1863 in Tottenham, England) was a mathematician who studied the

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. One of his most popular works is an exact construction of the regular

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in 1893 (which was calculated before by

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). Herbert was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 1911. On the 22 April 1948, Herbert died in Cambridge, England. The Richmond surface is named after him.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Richmond, Herbert William English mathematicians 1863 births 1948 deaths People from Tottenham