Gaspard Monge Geometry & French Revolution – Vintage Soviet Russian Math Book, USSR 1986

Vintage Soviet book about Gaspard Monge, mathematics and the French Revolution — published in Moscow in 1986.

Vladimir Demyanov's Geometry and the Marseillaise (Геометрия и Марсельеза) is an unusual Soviet popular-science work combining mathematics, biography and European history.

The central figure is Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), the celebrated French mathematician associated with the development of descriptive geometry. The book follows his scientific work and teaching alongside the upheavals of Revolutionary France, showing the relationship between mathematics, engineering, education and the political world in which Monge lived.

Published by Znanie in Moscow in 1986, this is the second revised and expanded edition. The volume contains 256 pages plus illustrated plates, including historical images connected with Monge and his era.

Edition details: Vladimir P. Demyanov · Geometry and the Marseillaise · Moscow · Znanie · 1986 · 2nd revised and expanded edition · 256 pages + illustrations · Hardcover · Russian language · Made in USSR.

The book is in vintage pre-owned condition. There is noticeable rubbing, marking and age/storage wear to the exterior; the internal pages appear generally clean and well preserved. Please use the listing photographs as the primary condition reference.

Ideal for: collectors of Soviet books and USSR publications, mathematicians and engineers, collectors of Russian-language science books, and readers interested in the history of mathematics, descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge or the French Revolution.