Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
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Mathematician who basically invented how we draw things in three dimensions—descriptive geometry became his whole thing. Also helped found what would become the École Polytechnique, where French engineering got its blueprint.
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Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.
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