Girard Desargues
French mathematician and engineer
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Girard Desargues mapped invisible lines in space that changed how mathematicians see geometry. His theorem proved so foundational that a lunar crater and a graph bear his name.
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Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues's theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour.
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