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Friedrich Robert Helmert
Professor Friedrich Robert Helmert. Photographer unknown.
Born( 1843-07-31)31 July 1843
Freiberg, Kingdom of Saxony
Died15 June 1917(1917-06-15) (aged 73)
Potsdam, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materPolytechnische Schule, now Technische Universität, in Dresden, University of Leipzig
Known forcontribution into geodesy and theory of errors.
Awardsrecipient of some 25 German and foreign decorations
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, geodesy
InstitutionsTechnical University in Aachen, University of Berlin.

Friedrich Robert Helmert (31 July 1843 – 15 June 1917) was a German geodesist and statistician with important contributions to the theory of errors.

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Friedrich Robert Helmert (31 July 1843 – 15 June 1917) was a German geodesist and statistician with important contributions to the theory of errors. Helmert...

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The Helmert transformation (named after Friedrich Robert Helmert, 1843–1917) is a geometric transformation method within a three-dimensional space. It...

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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was extended in several directions by the geodesist Friedrich Robert Helmert to the Gauss-Helmert model. Gauss made several striking contributions to...

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Figure of the Earth

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Earth's circumference#History Earth's radius#History Flat Earth Friedrich Robert Helmert History of geodesy History of the metre Meridian arc#History Seconds...

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List of geodesists

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1828–1914 (England) Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914 (United States) Friedrich Robert Helmert 1843–1917 (Germany) Heinrich Bruns 1848–1919 (Germany) Loránd Eötvös...

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Helmert Bank

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submarine bank in the Weddell Sea named for the German geodesist Friedrich Robert Helmert. The name was proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze of the Alfred Wegener...

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Metre

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had been noticed by Plantamour and Adolphe Hirsch. This allowed Friedrich Robert Helmert to determine a remarkably accurate value of 1/298.3 for the flattening...

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Paris meridian

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Geodetic Association in 1898. In 1911, Alexander Ross Clarke and Friedrich Robert Helmert stated in the Encyclopædia Britannica : "According to the calculations...

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History of the metre

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geodesists. An even more accurate value was proposed in 1901 by Friedrich Robert Helmert according to gravity measurements performed under the auspices...

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Physical geodesy

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further correction called the terrain correction. Dynamic height Friedrich Robert Helmert Geophysics Gravity of Earth Gravimetry LAGEOS Mikhail Molodenskii...

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International Latitude Service

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Association. Its central office was based in Potsdam and headed by Friedrich Robert Helmert. Regular observations began in 1899. After 1916, the operations...

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Freiberg

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(1769–1859), naturalist and explorer Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917), surveyor, mathematician, the Helmert transformation is named after him, it...

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RWTH Aachen Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering

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found in 1880 and produced several notable individuals, including Friedrich Robert Helmert. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the faculty. The...

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History of geodesy

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the relevant theories were then derived by the German geodesist Friedrich Robert Helmert in his famous books Die mathematischen und physikalischen Theorien...

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GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

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of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Under the directorship of Friedrich Robert Helmert from 1886 to 1917, the institute developed into the world's leading...

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List of RWTH Aachen University people

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experimental physicist Christian Haug – physician, psychiatrist Friedrich Robert Helmert – mathematician and geodesist Ludwig Hopf – mathematician and theoretical...

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Vertical deflection

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5169/seals-88030. Retrieved 2022-12-23. Clarke, Alexander Ross; Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1911). "Earth, Figure of the" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol...

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Meridian arc

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{4n}{(1+n)^{2}}}\,.} In 1837, Friedrich Bessel obtained one such series, which was put into a simpler form by Helmert, m ( φ ) = a + b 2 ( H 0 φ + H...

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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1908

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David James Hamilton (1849–1909) Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917) William Gowland (1842–1922) William Halse Rivers Rivers...

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Probability

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(1816), Littrow (1833), Adolphe Quetelet (1853), Richard Dedekind (1860), Helmert (1872), Hermann Laurent (1873), Liagre, Didion and Karl Pearson. Augustus...

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List of statisticians

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(1943–2014) Heckman, Nancy E. Hedges, Larry V. Hein, Jotun (1956–) Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1843–1917) Henderson, Charles Roy (1911–1989) Henningsen, Inge...

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Meridian circle

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1911, p. 183. Norton (1867), p. 33ff Clarke, Alexander Ross; Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1911). "Geodesy" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica...

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