Girard Desargues
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French mathematician and engineer
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Geometry
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Measure Theory
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Why Is Girard Desargues Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour.