Gaspard Monge
1746 - 1818 | ![]() Click the picture above | ||||||||||
Monge is considered the father of differential geometry because of his work Application de l'analyse à la géométrie where he introduced the concept of lines of curvature of a surface in 3-space. | |||||||||||
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