Gaspard Monge
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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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Monge's bust in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summari
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…the father of differential geometry. He contributed alongside chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist and physician Jean-Antoine Chaptal, and polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace to the establishment of Arts et Métiers ParisTech. During the French Revolution he served as the Minister of the Marine, and was involved in the reform…
Pierre-Simon Laplace as chancellor of the Senate under the First French Empire
Portrait of Pierre-Simon Laplace by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1784)
The Calorimeter of Lavoisier and La Place, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1801
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