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Jean-Victor Poncelet, a Common card
Jean-Victor Poncelet was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the École Polytechnique.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,900
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Jean-Victor Poncelet quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jean-Victor Poncelet card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He later wrote an ______ to it: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie.
Answer
introduction. He later wrote an introduction to it: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie. From the Jean-Victor Poncelet article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Essam Sharaf. Essam Sharaf 68 · William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech 65 · Jean-Victor Poncelet 62 · Kurdish population of Nashville 59 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century.
- He later wrote an introduction to it: Applications d'analyse et de géométrie.
- As a mathematician, his most notable work was in projective geometry, although an early collaboration with Charles Julien Brianchon provided a significant contribution to Feuerbach's theorem.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jean-Victor Poncelet article was read about 5,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jean-Victor Poncelet (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Smithsonian Libraries, https://library.si.edu/image-gallery/74037 (You must cite and link , Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
