High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 - December 22, 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the cole Polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Trait des propri t s projectives des figures is considered the first definitive paper on the subject since G rard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century. He later wrote an introduction to it; Applications d'analyse et de g om trie.
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