Gaspard Monge, Comte de Peluse was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.
10 Facts About Gaspard Monge
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Gaspard Monge was educated at the college of the Oratorians at Beaune.
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In 1777, Gaspard Monge married Catherine Huart, who owned a forge.
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Gaspard Monge took a very active part in the measures for the establishment of the Ecole Normale, and of the school for public works, afterwards the Ecole Polytechnique, and was at each of them professor for descriptive geometry.
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Gaspard Monge later published Application de l'analyse a la geometrie, which enlarged on the Lectures.
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Gaspard Monge was appointed president of the Egyptian commission, and he resumed his connection with the Ecole Polytechnique.
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Gaspard Monge's remains were first interred in a mausoleum in Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and later transferred to the Pantheon in Paris.
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Gaspard Monge's name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the base of the Eiffel Tower.
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Since 4 November 1992 the Marine Nationale operate the MRIS Gaspard Monge, named after him.
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Gaspard Monge's paper gives the ordinary differential equation of the curves of curvature, and establishes the general theory in a very satisfactory manner; the application to the interesting particular case of the ellipsoid was first made by him in a later paper in 1795.