Gaspard Monge, also known as Count de Péluse, was born on Monday, the 9th of May, 1746 in Beaune, Bourgogne, France. He was the son of Jacques Monge and Jeanne Rousseaux. During his childhood his father was a small merchant. Later in 1777 Monge was wed to Cathérine Huart. Gaspard died on Tuesday, the 28th of July in the year 1818 in Paris, France. Monge majored in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and education. During his 72 years of life Monge created descriptive geometry and also laid the groundwork for the development of analytical geometry. Today both descriptive geometry and analytical geometry have become parts of projective geometry.
Gaspard Monge’s college education came from the Oratorian College located in Beaune. The school was founded by St. Philip Neri, who created the schools from having too many members in his spiritual discussion meetings, in the year 1575 in Rome. Over 70 Oratories with around five hundred priests have spread around the world by today. These schools are and were intended for young nobles. Monge, in 1762 continued his education in Lyons at the Collège de la Trinité. He was sixteen by this time, and he became a physics teacher at the school after one year of studying.
After two years Gaspard finished education in 1764. Monge’s career direction was majorly influenced by his visit to Beaune. During this return to his hometown Gaspard Monge drew a large scale plan of the town.This plan consisted of creating methods of observation and necessary surveying instruments. The reason this returning visit had so much influence on Monge’s career is because while he was there an officer of engineering at the Royal School of Engineering at Mézières, founded in 1748, saw his plan and was very impressed w...
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...ue. In the year of 1798 however Monge was sent to Italy yet again on a assignment. Sadly this mission ended the institution of the short term Roman Republic.
Monge accompanied his new friend Napoleon to Egypt during the years of 1798 to 1801. While the two men were Cairo Gaspard Monge helped establish a cultural organization, the Institute of Egypt, styled after the National Institute of France. Due to Napoleon’s fall from power in the year 1814 Monge was deprived of recognition of all his honors and excluded him from the list of members of the reconstituted Institute, in the year 1816.
Gaspard Monge spent his life devoted to teaching young minds new methods. He also spent a grand majority of his time researching not only his main field of mathematics to which he contributed to greatly, but he also contributed to the scientific fields of both chemistry and physics.
Claude Monet played an essential role in a development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing powerful art from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of the nature of Normandy and time spent along the beaches and noticing the nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he was interested in becoming an artist. He was known by people for his charcoal caricatures, this way he made money by selling them by the age of 15. Moreover, Claude went to take drawing lessons with a local artist, but his career in painting had not begun yet. He met artist Eugène Boudin, who became his teacher and taught him to use oil paints. Claude Monet
On November 16, 2017, Horace Verbermockle was found lifeless as he laid down in the bathroom floor at his house. What happened to Horace Verbermockle?, his wife Minnie Verbermockle claims that Horace must have slipped on soap before she found him unconscious on the floor and alerted the doctor, who stated that Horace was dead when he got there. Minnie was the major suspect in the investigation by the fact that she was the first and only witness of the body. However after reviewing the evidence found at the scene, it is positive that Minnie Verbermockle murdered her husband Horace Verbermockle.
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Charles Messier found his first job when he was twenty one. A family friend, the Abbé Thélson, found two job opportunities for Messier, the first with the curator of the palace, the second with an astronomer. Finally Hyacinthe chose a job for Charles, the second, with an astronomer because Hyacinthe believed it would be better for Charles. On September 23, 1751 Messier left Badonviller to Paris for his first day at work. Messier arrived in Paris on Octo...
In 1798, the French Directory ordered Napoleon Bonaparte to invade Egypt. Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader. He entered Egypt with the goal of spreading the liberal ideals of the French Revolution. Napoleon very quickly occupied the populated parts of the country. He proclaimed himself the liberator of Egypt and the protector of Islam. Muslim scholar Abd Rahman Al-Jabarti’s chronicle of the French invasion of Egypt provides eyewitness accounts to Napolean’s invasion with an opposing viewpoint to the belief that Napoleon held of himself. Al-Jabarti was critical, judgemental, and did not always agree with Napoleon’s intentions due to the cultural misunderstandings occupying both the French and Egyptians. Initial
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...ibutions to analytic geometry, algebra, and calculus. In particular, he discovered the binomial theorem, original methods for expansion of never-ending series, and his “direct and inverse method of fluxions.”
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No other scholar has affected more fields of learning than Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, he was born into a family of respected mathematicians. Being the childhood prodigy that he was, he came up with a theory at the age of three that was Euclid’s book on the sum of the interior of triangles. At the age of sixteen, he was brought by his father Etienne to discuss about math with the greatest minds at the time. He spent his life working with math but also came up with a plethora of new discoveries in the physical sciences, religion, computers, and in math. He died at the ripe age of thirty nine in 1662(). Blaise Pascal has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physical science and computers in countless ways.
His father taught his Latin but after a while saw his son’s greater passion towards mathematics. However, Andre resumed his Latin lessons to enable him to study the work of famous mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Bernoulli. While in the study of his father’s library his favorite study books were George Louis Leclerc history book and Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond Encyclopedia, became Ampere’s schoolmasters (Andre). When Ampere finished in his father’s library he had his father take him to the library in Lyon. While there he studied calculus. A couple of weeks later he was able to do difficult treaties on applied mathematics (Levy, Pg. 135). Later in life he said “the new as much about mathematics when he was 18, than he knew in his entire life. His reading...
Etienne Pascal was very concerned about his son becoming an educated man. This is why he decided to teach his son on his own. He brought a young Blaise to lectures and other gatherings. He decided Blaise would not study math until age 15. When he made this decision he took all the math books out of the family home; however, this did not stop a curious Pascal. At age twelve, he started to work on geometry by himself. Blaise’s father finally started to take him to mathematical gatherings at "Academic Parisienne." At the age of 16, Pascal began to play an active role in "Academic Parisienne," as the principal disciple of Girard Desargues, one of the heads of "Academic Par...
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Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this mans work, everyone knows that his impact on the world is astonishing.