Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

continuity concerning intersection numbers in geometry was promoted by Jean-Victor Poncelet in his "Traité des propriétés projectives des figures". Leibniz expressed...

these general theorems. During the early 19th century the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet, Lazare Carnot and others established projective geometry as an independent...

"complete" the Euclidean plane by adding points at infinity, following Jean-Victor Poncelet. This results in a projective plane. Desargues's theorem is true...

astronomer NW02 TRESCA Henri Tresca engineer and mechanic NW03 PONCELET Jean-Victor Poncelet geometer NW04 BRESSE Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse civil engineer...

Poncelet Prize (French: Prix Poncelet) is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General Jean-Victor...

the turbine runner, causing it to spin. Another French engineer, Jean-Victor Poncelet, designed an inward-flow turbine in about 1820 that used the same...

Zürich, holding the post until his death. Inspired by the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet, Culmann was a pioneer of graphical methods in engineering ("graphic...

Egregium Louis Poinsot (1777–1859) Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) – projective geometry Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)...

Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1839) 1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1867) 1804 – Charles Gordon...

universal joint. By 1845, the French engineer and mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet had analyzed the movement of the universal joint using spherical...

circumcircle. This is a special case of Poncelet's porism, which was proved by the French mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867). Examples of bicentric...

Russian abacus was brought to France around 1820 by mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who had served in Napoleon's army and had been a prisoner of war...

Maillet (1656–1738) Charles Messier (1730–1817) Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1757–1785) Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) Charles Hermite (1822–1901) Edmond...

for poles of concurrent lines are not collinear points." It was Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), a French engineer and mathematician, who introduced...

to the mathematics of projective geometry of Girard Desargues and Jean-Victor Poncelet. The Japanese paper-folding art of origami has been reworked mathematically...

was largely the result of the work of Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and Jean-Victor Poncelet over the period 1819–1839, although the present-day definition can...

Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, with the inscription SMOLENSK 17 VIII 1812. Jean-Victor Poncelet Jakob Walter Bodart 1908, p. 436. Clodfelter 2017, p. 164. Chandler...

F, G, H, I.) (At a slightly earlier date, Charles Brianchon and Jean-Victor Poncelet had stated and proven the same theorem.) But soon after Feuerbach...

physicist Natalia Pogonina, chess player, women Grandmaster (WGM) Jean-Victor Poncelet, French engineer and mathematician (POW) Alexander Radishchev, writer...

test machine for conveyor chains used in the Clausthal mines. 1839: Jean-Victor Poncelet describes metals as being 'tired' in his lectures at the military...

is found at Hacienda Buena Vista in Ponce, Puerto Rico. In 1820, Jean-Victor Poncelet developed an inward-flow turbine. In 1826, Benoît Fourneyron developed...

Pappus (c. 340). The greatest flowering of the field occurred with Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867). In the late 17th century, calculus was developed independently...

to work, was largely the result of Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and Jean-Victor Poncelet over the period 1819–1839. The former called the quantity quantité...

overtones concerned Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel and a claim on inelastic shocks. Cauchy was later shown, by Jean-Victor Poncelet, to be wrong. List of...