Gaspard Monge
1746 – 1818 · aged 72
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
- Born
- 9 May 1746 · Beaune
- Died
- 28 Jul 1818 · Paris
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- 9 May 1746BornBorn in Beaune
- 1789 – 1799Took partFrench Revolution
- 1792 – 1793RoleMinister of the French Navy
- 1796 – 1797Took partItalian Campaign of 1796-1797
- 1797 – 1798RoleDirector
- 1798 – 1801Took partFrench invasion of Egypt and Syria
- 1798 – 1800RoleDirector
- 1798 – 1799RoleMember of the Council of Five Hundred
- 1799 – 1814RoleMember of the Sénat conservateur
- 1802RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1803AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 1805AwardOrder of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy)
- 1806 – 1807RolePresident
- 1813AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Reunion
- 1815RolePeer of France
- 28 Jul 1818DiedDied in Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1746 – 1818).
- 1756 – 1763Seven Years' War
- c. 1760 – 1840Industrial Revolution
- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (French: [ɡaspaʁ mɔ̃ʒ kɔ̃t də pelyz]; 9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and 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 of the French educational system, helping to found, with Lamblardie and Lazare Carnot, the École Polytechnique, France's most prestigious engineering school.
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