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Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (born 1788)
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French engineer and mathematician (1788–1867)
Jean-Victor Poncelet was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the École Polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)