References for Jean-Victor Poncelet

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

Books:

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

Articles:

  1. 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.
  2. J Bertrand, Eloge historique de Jean Victor Poncelet, Éloges académiques (Paris, 1890), 105-129.
  3. 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.
  4. H J M Bos, C Kers, F Oort and D W Raven, Poncelet's closure theorem, Exposition. Math. 5 (4) (1987), 289-364.
  5. H J M Bos, The closure theorem of Poncelet, Rend. Sem. Mat. Fis. Milano 54 (1984), 145-158.
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