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Gaspard Monge

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Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (French:; 9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.

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