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Born July 1, 1788 • Metz • France
Died December 22, 1867 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study duality • turbine

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Jean-Victor Poncelet, detail of a lithograph by Patout, 1849.
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Girard Desargues
French mathematician
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Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
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Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Steiner surface. It was during a trip to Rome in 1844 that Jakob Steiner first discovered the fourth-degree surface that today bears his name; for this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Roman surface. Each of its tangent planes has the characteristic property that it intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point. Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner's results in 1863, the year of Steiner's death.
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin
Flemish mathematician
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Karl Georg Christian von Staudt
German mathematician
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Benjamin Robins
British engineer and mathematician
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace wearing formal attire with a sash and star-shaped medal, looking slightly to his left.
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
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Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician

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