Mathematician:Gaspard Monge

Mathematician

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 (with André-Marie Ampère)
• Monge's Theorem

Publications

• 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

Sources

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

• 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: Chapter $\text{XII}$
• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818)