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Jean-Victor Poncelet

1788 - 1867

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Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) 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 definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century. He later wrote an introduction to it: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie. As a mathematician, his most notable work was in projective geometry, although an early collaboration with Charles Julien Brianchon provided a significant contribution to Feuerbach's theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Victor Poncelet is the 125th most popular mathematician (down from 114th in 2019), the 811th most popular biography from France (up from 814th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Mathematician.

Jean-Victor Poncelet was a French mathematician who is most famous for the development of the theory of projective geometry.

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Among mathematicians, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 125 out of 1,004. Before him are Christopher Clavius, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Isaac Barrow, G. H. Hardy, Nicomachus, and Brook Taylor. After him are Hippocrates of Chios, Paul Ehrenfest, Jacques Hadamard, Lodovico Ferrari, Maurice René Fréchet, and Charles Hermite.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 7. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Lord Byron, Sarah Baartman, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen. After him are Ranavalona I, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Étienne Cabet, Antoine César Becquerel, and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden. Among people deceased in 1867, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 10. Before him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Otto of Greece, Emperor Kōmei, Sakamoto Ryōma, Théodore Rousseau, and Franz Bopp. After him are Maria Theresa of Austria, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Victor Cousin, Princess Sophie of Saxony, and William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 811 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Meslier (1664), Catherine Labouré (1806), Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jacques Tati (1907), and Juliette Binoche (1964). After him are Maurice Blanchot (1907), François Ravaillac (1578), Sidonius Apollinaris (430), Guy Debord (1931), Isabella of Hainault (1170), and Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean-Victor Poncelet ranks 25. Before him are Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), Alexis Clairaut (1713), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698). After him are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), and Gabriel Lamé (1795).

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