Mathematician:Jean-Victor Poncelet

Mathematician

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

With Charles Julien Brianchon, proved the Nine Point Circle Theorem in $1820$.

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)
• Nine Point Circle Theorem (with Charles Julien Brianchon)

Results named for Jean-Victor Poncelet can be found here.

Other Entities

• Poncelet (unit of power)

Publications

• 1820: Recherches sur la Détermination d'une Hyperbole Equilatère, au Moyen de Quatres Conditions Donnée (with Charles Julien Brianchon)
• 1822: Traité des propriétés projectives des figures ("Treatise on the Projective Properties of 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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Jean-Victor Poncelet": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: Chapter $\text{XIII}$
• 1952: T. Ewan Faulkner: Projective Geometry (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Introduction: The Propositions of Incidence: $1.1$: Historical Note
• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)
• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)
• 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)