Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most...
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Gabon Poncelet (crater), the remains of a lunar impact crater near the northern limb of the Moon Christian Poncelet (1928–2020), French politician Jean-Victor...
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cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet. One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram...
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straightedge and compass could construct. This groundwork was provided by Jean Victor Poncelet in 1822, having been motivated by Mohr's work on the Mohr-Mascheroni...
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two conics. It is named after French engineer and mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who wrote about it in 1822; however, the triangular case was discovered...
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The Poncelet wheel is a type of waterwheel invented by Jean-Victor Poncelet while working at the École d'Application in Metz. It roughly doubled the efficiency...
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continuity concerning intersection numbers in geometry was promoted by Jean-Victor Poncelet in his "Traité des propriétés projectives des figures". Leibniz expressed...
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these general theorems. During the early 19th century the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet, Lazare Carnot and others established projective geometry as an independent...
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physicist Natalia Pogonina, chess player, women Grandmaster (WGM) Jean-Victor Poncelet, French engineer and mathematician (POW) Alexander Radishchev, writer...
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"complete" the Euclidean plane by adding points at infinity, following Jean-Victor Poncelet. This results in a projective plane. Desargues's theorem is true...
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