ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Gaspard Monge

French mathematician who invented the field of descriptive geometry.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 9 May 1746, Beaune, Bourgogne, France
• Died: 28 July 1818, Paris, France

Theorems

• Monge Array
• Monge-Ampère Equation
• Monge's Theorem

Books and Papers

• 1781: Sur la théorie des déblais et des remblais
• 1786: Traité élémentaire de la statique
• 1792: Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons
• 1793: Avis aux ouvriers en fer sur la fabrication de l'acier
• 1799: Géométrie descriptive

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gaspard Monge": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics (1937): Chapter $\text{XII}$