Gaspard Monge
1746-1818
French Mathematician, Physicist and Chemist
The most widely recognized of the many achievements attributed to Gaspard Monge, sometimes known as the comte de Péluse, was hi...
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Gaspard Monge
1746-1818
French mathematician who contributed to the study of projective geometry. Monge not only invented descriptive geometry, but pioneered the development of analytical geometry. Hi...
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Monge was born into a merchant family and received a typical public school education. His instinctive aptitude for mathematics and science was so strong that he was placed in charge of the physics cou...
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Considered the founder of descriptive and differential geometry, Gaspard Monge was one of the most famous mathematicians of his day and renowned for his application of geometry to problems of construc...
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Monge was born into a merchant family and received a typical public school education. His instinctive aptitude for mathematics and science was so strong that he was placed in charge of the physics cou...
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Gaspard Monge
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