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Philbert Maurice d'Ocagne

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French engineer and mathematician

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According to Wikipedia, Philbert Maurice d'Ocagne was a French engineer and mathematician. He founded the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he called nomogram. Biography Philbert-Maurice Ocagne was born in Paris on 25 March 1862. He attended high school at the Lycée Fontanges school in Paris, and studied at Chaptal college. In 1877, he published his first mathematical work. In 1880, he entered the École Polytechnique. He published many articles on math. Starting in 1885, he served for six years as engineer, supporting waterworks projects in Rochefort and Cherbourg, then worked at Seine-et-Oise, at the residence of Pontoise. From 1882, he continued to published articles on mathematics in the French Academy of Sciences and major journals including Journal of the École Polytechnique, Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, Acta Mathematica, Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, and American Journal of Mathematics. He became a tutor at the École Polytechnique in 1893, then in 1894 a professor at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. In 1891, he began publishing papers on nomography.

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