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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 ...
May 9, 2024 · Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse (born May 10, 1746, Beaune, France—died July 28, 1818, Paris) was a French mathematician who invented descriptive geometry, the study of the mathematical principles of representing three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional plane; no longer an active discipline in mathematics, the subject is part of mechanical and architectural drawing.
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Jul 28, 2012 · Biography. Gaspard Monge became the Comte de Péluse later in his life and he is sometimes known by this name. His father was Jacques Monge, a merchant who came originally from Haute-Savoie in southeastern France. Gaspard's mother, whose maiden name was Jeanne Rousseaux, was a native of Burgundy and it was in the town of Beaune in Burgundy that ...
May 10, 2020 · Gaspard Monge (1746 – 1818) On May 10, 1746, French mathematician Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse was born. He is best known for being the inventor of descriptive geometry as the mathematical basis of technical drawing, and being the father of differential geometry. During the French Revolution Monge served as the Minister of the Marine, and ...
Gaspard Monge. 1746-1818. French Mathematician, Physicist and Chemist. T he most widely recognized of the many achievements attributed to Gaspard Monge, sometimes known as the comte de Péluse, was his development of descriptive geometry as a means of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions. So valued was this technique for its ...
Jul 28, 2015 · Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry. During the French Revolution he served as the Minister of the Marine, and was involved in the reform of the ...
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Gaspard Monge, a surveyor, was born at Beaune, in Burgundy, in 1746. He died in Paris on July 18, 1818. His father was a little itinerant cutler merchant, who made all the sacrifices to put his three sons in college. little town he lived in. The eldest, the one who was to become the great Monge, was, from the beginning, an elite subject.
