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The theorems are named after the mathematicians Pappus, who worked in Alexandria and lived in the third or fourth century AD, and Guldin (Guldinus), who in 1635 formulated the results of his work on the center of gravity.
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Jakob Steiner (1796–1863), Swiss mathematician and outstanding geometer, working mainly at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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Otto Mohr (1835–1918), German engineer.
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Awrejcewicz, J. (2012). Geometry of Masses. In: Classical Mechanics. Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics, vol 28. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3791-8_3
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