When1: 1822
Who: Jean-Victor Poncelet [Poncelet, Jean-Victor]
What: mathematician
Where: Paris, France
works\ Treatise on the projective properties of figures [1822]
Detail: He lived 1788 to 1867, rediscovered projective geometry, and studied affine geometry, differential geometry, and harmonic point sets.
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