Jean‑Victor Poncelet
E531756
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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean-Victor Poncelet | 1 |
| Jean‑Victor Poncelet canonical | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jean-Victor Poncelet