References for Jean-Victor Poncelet

1. R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

3. A N Bogolyubov, Jean-Victor Poncelet. 1788-1867 (Russian), Scientific-Biographic Literature 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1988).
4. H Tribout, Un grand savant : Le général Jean Victor Poncelet (Paris, 1936).

Articles:

5. B Belhoste, J-V Poncelet, les ingenieurs militaires et les roues et turbines hydrauliques, Cahiers d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences 29 (1990), 33-89.
6. J Bertrand, Eloge historique de Jean Victor Poncelet, Éloges académiques (Paris, 1890), 105-129.
7. A N Bogolyubov, Geometry and mechanics in the works of J-V Poncelet (Russian), Studies in the history of physics and mechanics 271 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1986), 178-191.
8. H J M Bos, C Kers, F Oort and D W Raven, Poncelet's closure theorem, Exposition. Math. 5 (4) (1987), 289-364.
9. H J M Bos, The closure theorem of Poncelet, Rend. Sem. Mat. Fis. Milano 54 (1984), 145-158.

December 1996