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
- Desarguesian Plane, Non-Desarguesian Plane
- Desargues' Theorem
- Desargues Graph
- Desargues Configuration
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
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Girard Desargues": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1952: T. Ewan Faulkner: Projective Geometry (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Introduction: The Propositions of Incidence: $1.1$: Historical Note
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Desargues' theorem
- 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Desargues, Girard (1591-1661)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Desargues, Girard (1591-1661)
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Desargues, Girard (1591-1661)