Known as the father of descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) was born in Beaune, Burgundy in France. Attending college at an early age, Monge showed mathematical talent early on. He drew a ...

ALL mathematicians and others interested in the history of science will welcome this mathematical classic, both from the point of view of the personal interest in Monge himself, and also because of ...

THANKS to Messrs. Kempe, Hart, and other writers on Linkages, we are able “Curvo dignoscere rectum,” and “Parallels design Sure as Demoivre” could. The title of the work before us shows that it is not ...