Desargues
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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
The point of these remarks is apparent when we note that Desargues introduced some seventy new terms in his little book, of which only one, involution, has survived.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Derrick Norman Lehmer
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 Derrick Norman Lehmer
We consider first the following beautiful theorem, due to Desargues and called by his name.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Derrick Norman Lehmer
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