Jean‑Victor Poncelet

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Jean‑Victor Poncelet was a 19th‑century French engineer and mathematician renowned as a founder of modern projective geometry and for his influential work in geometry and mechanics.

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instanceOf French person
human
mathematician
areaOfExpertise hydraulic turbines
theory of machines
birthCountry France
birthDate 1788-07-01
birthPlace Metz NERFINISHED
contributedTo theory of water wheels and turbines
deathDate 1867-12-22
deathPlace Paris
educatedAt École Polytechnique NERFINISHED
École d’Application de l’Artillerie et du Génie de Metz NERFINISHED
era 19th century
familyName Poncelet NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork engineering
geometry
mechanics
projective geometry
givenName Jean-Victor NERFINISHED
hasConcept Poncelet’s closure theorem NERFINISHED
Poncelet’s porism for polygons between two conics NERFINISHED
influenced Jakob Steiner NERFINISHED
Julius Plücker NERFINISHED
development of 19th-century geometry
projective geometry as a discipline
influencedBy Gaspard Monge NERFINISHED
Lazare Carnot NERFINISHED
knownFor Poncelet polygon NERFINISHED
Poncelet’s porism NERFINISHED
applications of projective methods to geometry
founding modern projective geometry
principle of continuity in projective geometry
work in applied mechanics
work on the theory of conic sections
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
militaryRank officer
name Jean-Victor Poncelet NERFINISHED
nationality French
notableWork Applications d’analyse et de géométrie NERFINISHED
Traité des propriétés projectives des figures NERFINISHED
occupation military engineer
professor
positionHeld director of École Polytechnique
engineer in the Corps of Engineers
professor at École Polytechnique
servedIn French Army NERFINISHED
workLocation Metz NERFINISHED
Paris

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