Gaspard 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 three-dimensional space. He was born in Beaune in Burgundy on 9 May 1746 and died in Paris on 28 July 1818. He also created descriptive geometry, the method of representing solids on plane drawings, and he was a founder of the École Polytechnique.
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Born 9 May 1746 Beaune, Bourgogne, France
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Gaspard Monge is considered the father of differential geometry because of his work Application de l'analyse
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In geometry, Monge's theorem, named after Gaspard Monge, states that for any three circles in a plane, none of which is completely inside one of the others, the intersection points of each of the three pairs of external tangent lines are collinear
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This problem was first formalised by Gaspard Monge in 1781
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