projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour. Born in Lyon, Desargues came from a...

In projective geometry, Desargues's theorem, named after Girard Desargues, states: Two triangles are in perspective axially if and only if they are in...

named after Girard Desargues. The Desargues configuration can be constructed in two dimensions from the points and lines occurring in Desargues's theorem...

graph theory, the Desargues graph is a distance-transitive, cubic graph with 20 vertices and 30 edges. It is named after Girard Desargues, arises from several...

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as above. These planes are called Desarguesian planes, named after Girard Desargues. The real (or complex) projective plane and the projective plane of...

astronomical work) Edmund Gunter (1581–1686) Girard Desargues (1591–1661) – projective geometry; Desargues' theorem René Descartes (1596–1650) – invented...

satisfy Desargues' theorem (named after Girard Desargues), or in other words a plane that is not a Desarguesian plane. The theorem of Desargues is true...

point' or more literally the 'turning point' such as in a whirlpool. Girard Desargues defined the vertical to be perpendicular to the horizon in his 1636...

study painting. Upon his return to Paris, he became a disciple of Girard Desargues from whom he learned geometrical perspective and was received as a...

of this period was the systematic study of projective geometry by Girard Desargues (1591–1661). Projective geometry studies properties of shapes which...

drawing, and ultimately to the mathematics of projective geometry of Girard Desargues and Jean-Victor Poncelet. The Japanese paper-folding art of origami...

synthesis in the research of the architect, geometer, and optician Girard Desargues on perspective, optics and projective geometry. The Vitruvian Man by...

geometry include: Projective geometry, introduced in the 16th century by Girard Desargues, extends Euclidean geometry by adding points at infinity at which parallel...

– Jacques Derrida (as in Derridean deconstruction) desarguesian – Girard Desargues (as in desarguesian plane) Dickensian – Charles Dickens Dickinsonian...

the concept of limits. Kepler first used the term 'foci' in 1604. Girard Desargues and Blaise Pascal developed a theory of conics using an early form...

+ 1 (a line), or x2 + y2 = 7 (a circle). Also in the 17th century, Girard Desargues, motivated by the theory of perspective, introduced the concept of...

Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Wenzel Jamnitzer, Abraham Bosse, Girard Desargues, and Père Nicon. Flocon was delighted by Escher's Grafiek en tekeningen...

everything he saw during the siege. He also met French mathematician Girard Desargues. In the autumn of that year, in the residence of the papal nuncio Guidi...

of chance when he encountered the work of Fermat, Blaise Pascal and Girard Desargues. It was Pascal who encouraged him to write Van Rekeningh in Spelen...

Archive J. V. Field and J. J. Gray (1987) The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues, (New York: Springer), p. 54 Ivor Thomas (editor) (1980) Selections...

philosopher (physicist) Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), cartographer Girard Desargues (1591–1661), mathematician René Descartes (1596–1650), scientist and...

Kepler (1571–1630) and Girard Desargues (1591–1661) independently developed the concept of the "point at infinity". Desargues developed an alternative...

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River and Orinoco River basins, is first encountered by Europeans Girard Desargues introduces the concept of infinity into geometry. April 12 – Martin...

mathematical and optical research of the celebrated architect and geometer Girard Desargues, with an emphasis on his studies on conics, perspective and projective...

of Rouen March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (d.1660) Girard Desargues, mathematician (d. 1661) May 4 – Hugues Doneau, law professor (b.1527)...

engravings. In 1641, he began to attend classes given by the architect Girard Desargues (1591–1661) on perspective and other technical aspects of depiction...

Prevost and Vieth and Muller. The horopter was then used by architect Girard Desargues, who in 1639 published a remarkable treatise on the conic sections...

(died 1711) Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, naval officer (died 1732) Girard Desargues, mathematician (born 1591) René Menard, Jesuit missionary (born 1605)...