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Gaspard Monge | |
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| Born | 9 May 1746 |
| Died | 28 July 1818 (aged 72) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Descriptive geometry Transportation theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematics, engineering, education |
| Notable students | Jean-Baptiste Biot[1] Charles Dupin Sylvestre François Lacroix Jean-Victor Poncelet[1] |
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Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746[2] – 28 July 1818)[3] was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry,[4][5] (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.[6] During the French Revolution he served as the Minister of the Marine, and was involved in the reform of the French educational system, helping to found the École Polytechnique.
- ^ a b Sooyoung Chang, Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians, World Scientific, 2010, p. 93.
- ^ "Registres paroissiaux et/ou d'état civil : 16 janvier 1745 – 1746" [Parish and/or civil registers: January 16, 1745 – 1746] (in French). Archives of the Department of Côte-d'Or. p. 174/281. FRAD021EC 57/044. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Monfredy (1845) to Mongé (1831)", Fichiers de l'état civil reconstitué [Reconstituted files of civil status] (in French), Paris Archives, p. 44/51, V3E/D 1076, retrieved 8 May 2018
- ^ Albrecht Dürer and Guarino Guarini published works establishing the field before Monge.
- ^ Arthur Cayley (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 709–710.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gaspard Monge", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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