Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (died 1867)

Jean-Victor Poncelet

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…