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Jean-Victor Poncelet
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Biography
Birth, education, and capture (1788â1814)
File:Cloître sainte Constance (lycée Fabert de Metz).JPG|thumb|left|The Lycée Fabert in MetzMetz Poncelet was born in Metz, France, on 1 July 1788, the illegitimate then legitimated Poncelet was legitimated by his father in 1825 (from Baptism certificate â Archives Municipales of Metz). Actually Jean-Victor Poncelet was first recognized on pluviose 28 (no year given) then legitimated by his father when he married Anne Marie Perin on 11 December 1825 son of Claude Poncelet, a lawyer of the Parliament of Metz and wealthy landowner.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Kimberly A. McGrath, World of Scientific Discovery, Jean-Victor Poncelet, 2006, Thomson Gale, Detroit, His mother, Anne-Marie Perrein, had a more modest background. BOOK, James, Ioan, 2002, Remarkable Mathematicians, Cambridge University Press, 76, 978-0-521-52094-2, At a young age, he was sent to live with the Olier family at Saint-Avold.Didion 1870, p. 102 He returned to Metz for his secondary education, at Lycée Fabert. After this, he attended the , a prestigious school in Paris, from 1808 to 1810, though he fell behind in his studies in his third year due to poor health. After graduation, he joined the Corps of Military Engineers. He attended the Ãcole d'application in his hometown during this time, and achieved the rank of lieutenant in the French Army the same year he graduated.WEB, Jean-Victor Poncelet biography,weblink 19 April 2008, John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson, Poncelet took part in Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. His biographer (:fr:Isidore Didion|Didion) writes that he was part of the group which was cut from Marshal Michel Ney's army at the Battle of Krasnoi and was forced to capitulate to the Russians,Didion 1870, p. 116 though other sources say that he was left for dead. Upon capture, he was interrogated by General Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, but he did not disclose any information.Didion 1870, p. 166 The Russians held him as a prisoner of war and confined him at Saratov.WEB,weblink 31 May 2008, Eric W. Weisstein, 1996, Poncelet, Jean-Victor, During his imprisonment, in the years 1812â1814, he wrote his most notable work, Traité des propriétés projectives des figures, which outlined the foundations of projective geometry, as well as some new results. Poncelet, however, could not publish it until after his release in 1814.Release and later employment (1822â1848)
In 1815, the year after his release, Poncelet was employed a military engineer at his hometown of Metz. In 1822, while at this position, he published Traité des propriétés projectives des figures. This was the first major work to discuss projective geometry since Desargues', though Gaspard Monge had written a few minor works about it previously. It is considered the founding work of modern projective geometry. Joseph Diaz Gergonne also wrote about this branch of geometry at approximately the same time, beginning in 1810. Poncelet published several papers about the subject in Annales de Gergonne (officially known as Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées). However, Poncelet and Gergonne ultimately engaged in a bitter priority dispute over the Principle of Duality.In 1825, he became the professor of mechanics at the Ãcole d'Application in Metz, a position he held until 1835. During his tenure at this school, he improved the design of turbines and water wheels, deriving his work from the mechanics of the Provençal mill from southern France.WEB, James B. Calvert, Turbines, 20 May 2008, University of Denver,weblink Although the turbine of his design was not constructed until 1838, he envisioned such a design twelve years previous to that. In 1835, he left Ãcole d'Application, and in December 1837 became a tenured professor at Sorbonne (the University of Paris), where a 'Chaire de mécanique physique et expérimentale' was specially created for him with the support of François Arago.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Columbia University Press, The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6, 2007,Commanding General at Ãcole Polytechnique (1848â1867)
In 1848, Poncelet became the Commanding General of his alma mater, the Ãcole Polytechnique.Didion 1870, p. 101 He held the position until 1850, when he retired.During this time, he wrote Applications d'analyse et de géométrie, which served as an introduction to his earlier work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures. It was published in two volumes in 1862 and 1864.Bertrand 1879, p. 45 He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1865.WEB, Book of Members, 1780â2010: Chapter P,weblink American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 13 September 2016,Contributions
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PonceletâSteiner theorem
Poncelet discovered the following theorem in 1822: Euclidean compass and straightedge constructions can be carried out using only a straightedge if a single circle and its center is given. Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner proved this theorem in 1833, leading to the name of the theorem. The constructions that this theorem states are possible are known as Steiner constructions.{{mathworld|urlname=Poncelet-SteinerTheorem|title=Poncelet-Steiner Theorem}}Poncelet's porism
In geometry, Poncelet's porism (sometimes referred to as Poncelet's closure theorem) states that whenever a polygon is inscribed in one conic section and circumscribes another one, the polygon must be part of an infinite family of polygons that are all inscribed in and circumscribe the same two conics.Weisstein, Eric W. "Poncelet's Porism." From MathWorldâA Wolfram Web Resource.weblink King, Jonathan L., Three problems in search of a measure, Amer. Math. Monthly, 101, 7, 1994, 609â628,weblink 10.2307/2974690, 2974690,List of selected works
(File:Poncelet, Jean-Victor â Mémoire sur les roues hydrauliques a aubes courbes, mues par-dessous, 1827 â BEIC 12181474.jpg|thumb|Mémoire sur les roues hydrauliques a aubes courbes, mues par-dessous, 1827)- (1822) Traité des propriétés projectives des figures
- (1826) Cours de mécanique appliqué aux machines
- BOOK, Mémoire sur les roues hydrauliques a aubes courbes, mues par-dessous, veuve Thiel, Metz, 1827, fr,weblink
- (1829) Introduction à la mécanique industrielle
- BOOK, Traité de mécanique industrielle physique ou expérimentale, 1, Schiwel, Brugge, 1844, fr,weblink
- BOOK, Traité de mécanique industrielle physique ou expérimentale, 2, Schiwel, Brugge, 1844, fr,weblink
- BOOK, Traité de mécanique industrielle physique ou expérimentale, 3, Schiwel, Brugge, 1844, fr,weblink
- (1862/64) Applications d'analyse et de géométrie
- BOOK, Cours de mécanique appliquée aux machines, 1, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1874, fr,weblink
- BOOK, Cours de mécanique appliquée aux machines, 2, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1876, fr,weblink
See also
- Poncelet, a unit of power named after him
- Poncelet Prize, a prize established in 1868 in his honor
Notes
{{reflist|2}}References
- BOOK, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages du général J. V. Poncelet, Didion, M., L'Académie nationale de Metz, 1870, in Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz 1870 (50e année / 1868â1869; 2e série) pp. 101â159.
- BOOK, Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, 41, Bertrand, J., 1879,
- ENCYCLOPEDIA, René, Taton, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York, 1970, 978-0-684-16970-5, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Gale Cengage,
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- EB1911, Poncelet, Jean Victor, 22, 59,
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