ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Jean-Victor Poncelet
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French mathematician and engineer who revived the field of projective geometry.
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Nationality
French
History
- Born: 1 July 1788, Metz, Lorraine, France
- 1812 - 1814: Prisoner of war in Russia, where he wrote Traité des propriétés projectives des figures
- Died: 22 Dec 1867, Paris, France
Theorems
- Poncelet-Steiner Theorem (postulated by Poncelet, proved by Jakob Steiner)
Other Entities
- Poncelet (unit of power)
Books and Papers
- 1822: Traité des propriétés projectives des figures
- 1826: Cours de mécanique appliqué aux machines
- 1829: Introduction à la mécanique industrielle
- 1845: Sustaining Walls; Geometrical Constructions to Determine Their Thickness Under Various Circumstances: Geometrical Constructions to Determine Their Thickness Under Various Circumstances
- 1862: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie: Volume 1
- 1864: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie: Volume 2
- 1865-66: Traité des propriétés projectives des figures, 2nd edition
Also see
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Jean-Victor Poncelet": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics (1937): Chapter $\text{XIII}$
