Birthplace: Metz
Jean-Victor Poncelet was a prominent French engineer and mathematician known for his significant contributions to projective geometry. He revitalized the study of projective geometry with his definitive text and made notable advancements in related concepts such as projective harmonic conjugates and parallel lines meeting at infinity. Poncelet also had a successful military engineering career, serving in Napoleon’s campaign and later becoming a respected professor. His work in mechanics and turbine design further solidified his reputation in the fields of mathematics and engineering.
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