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 Gaspard Monge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaspard Monge died at Paris on July 28, 1818 and was interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in a mausoleum.
Monge's memoir just referred to gives the ordinary differential equation of the curves of curvature, and establishes the general theory in a very satisfactory manner; but the application to the interesting particular case of the ellipsoid was first made by him in a later paper in 1795.
Monge contributed (1770–1790) to the Memoirs of the Academy of Turin, the Mémoires des savantes étrangers of the Academy of Paris, the Mémoires of the same Academy, and the Annales de chimie, various mathematical and physical papers.
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 The Mirror of Literature, Issue 273.
A.G. Underneath this inscription is carved in sunk work an Egyptian lotus flower in an upright position; on the back of the mausoleum is the date of the year in which Gaspard Monge died.
Monge was a man of considerable merit as a geometrician, and, while living, stood preeminent above his contemporaries in the French school of that day.
There is a bust of Monge placed on a terminal pedestal underneath a canopy in the upper compartment, which canopy is open in front and in the back.
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 Père Lachaise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), mathematician - see Gaspard Monge's mausoleum
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 Gaspard Monge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaspard Monge died at Paris on July 28, 1818 and was interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in a mausoleum.
Monge's memoir just referred to gives the ordinary differential equation of the curves of curvature, and establishes the general theory in a very satisfactory manner; but the application to the interesting particular case of the ellipsoid was first made by him in a later paper in 1795.
An officer of engineers seeing it wrote to recommend Monge to the commandant of the military school at Mézières, and he was received as a draftsman and pupil in the practical school attached to that institution; the school itself was of too aristocratic a character to allow of his admission to it.
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