Mathematician:Jean-Victor Poncelet

French mathematician and engineer who revived the field of projective geometry.

Also developed the technique of dimensional analysis, and discovered the greenhouse effect.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 1 July 1788, Metz, Lorraine, France
 * 1812 - 1814: Prisoner of war in Russia, where he wrote Traité des propriétés projectives des figures
 * Died: 22 Dec 1867, Paris, France

Theorems

 * Poncelet-Steiner Theorem (postulated by Poncelet, proved by Jakob Steiner)

Other Entities

 * Poncelet (unit of power)

Books and Papers

 * 1822: Traité des propriétés projectives des figures
 * 1826: Cours de mécanique appliqué aux machines
 * 1829: Introduction à la mécanique industrielle
 * 1845: Sustaining Walls; Geometrical Constructions to Determine Their Thickness Under Various Circumstances: Geometrical Constructions to Determine Their Thickness Under Various Circumstances
 * 1862: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie: Volume 1
 * 1864: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie: Volume 2
 * 1865-66: Traité des propriétés projectives des figures, 2nd edition