Descriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art The Legacy of Gaspard Monge /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barbin, Évelyne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Menghini, Marta (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Volkert, Klaus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Mathematics-Study and teaching .; International education .; Comparative education.; Geometry.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematics Education.; International and Comparative Education.

This book seeks to explore the history of descriptive geometry in relation to its circulation in the 19th century, which had been favoured by the transfers of the model of the École Polytechnique to other countries. The book also covers the diffusion of its teaching from higher instruction to techn...