Gaspard Monge
French mathematician
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry. Wikipedia
Born: May 9, 1746, Beaune, France
Died: July 28, 1818 (age 72 years), Paris, France
Education: Collège-Lycée Ampère (1762–1764)
Parents: Jeanne Rousseaux Monge and Jacques Monge
Spouse: Marie-Catherine Monge (m. 1777–1818)
Influenced: Joseph Fourier, Charles Babbage, Charles Julien Brianchon, and more
Notable students: Jean-Victor Poncelet, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Étienne-Louis Malus, and more