Desargues
Americannoun
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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
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
Fermat, Roberval and Desargues took exception in their various ways to the methods employed in the geometry, and to the demonstrations of the laws of refraction given in the Dioptrics and Meteors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Desargues had no conception of the conic section of the locus of intersection of corresponding rays of two projective pencils of rays.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
Moreover, in the little company of scientists of which Desargues was a member the utmost liberty of thought and expression was maintained.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
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