Desargues

American  

[dey-zarg, dey-zahrg] / deɪˈzarg, deɪˈzɑrg /

noun

1. Gérard 1593–1662, French mathematician.

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Example Sentences

Gérard Desargues, a seventeenth-century French architect, was one of the early pioneers of projective geometry.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

He used the point at infinity to prove a number of important new theorems, but Desargues’s colleagues couldn’t understand his terminology and concluded that Desargues was nuts.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

We have, then, the beautiful theorem due to Desargues: The system of conics through four points meets any line in the plane in pairs of points in involution.

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman

This acknowledgment led Descartes to believe that Pascal's theorem should also be credited to Desargues.

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman

We distinguish vines by their fruit, and call them the Condrien, the Desargues, and such and such a stock.

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise