Mathematician:Girard Desargues

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Mathematician

French mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of projective geometry.


A member of the informal Académie Parisienne.


Nationality

French


History

  • Born: 21 February 1591 in Lyon, France
  • Died: September 1661 in Lyon, France


Theorems

Results named for Girard Desargues can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Girard Desargues can be found here.


Publications

  • 1639: Brouillon project d'une atteinte aux evenemens des rencontres du Cone avec un Plan (Rough draft for an essay on the results of taking plane sections of a cone)


Sources