Known as the father of descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) was born in Beaune, Burgundy in France. Attending college at an early age, Monge showed mathematical talent early on. He drew a ...

DESCRIPTIVE Geometry affords the practical means of dealing with geometry in three dimensions, in the same manner that Practical Geometry, that is to say, the intelligent use of drawing and of ...

The term descriptive geometry is still used for this method of representing the vertical and horizontal projections of an object. However, the modern term for the method is orthographic projection.

(1) MANY attempts are now being made to formulate a system of geometry suitable to the immature minds of schoolboys, which will on one hand develop their reasoning faculties by some kind of logical ...

William H. Roever, Descriptive Geometry and Its Merits as a Collegiate as Well as an Engineering Subject, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Apr., 1918), pp. 145-159 ...