Clermont (mathematician)
# Clermont (mathematician)

Clermont was a 17th-century French mathematician and military engineer. His book about practical geometry, La geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer (1693), was a reference work reprinted for 60 years.

Clermont served in the French Army as artillery commissary.

## Works

* La geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer (in French). Strasbourg: Friedrich Wilhelm Schmuck. 1693.
* L'arithmetique militaire, ou L'arithmetique pratique de l'ingénieur et de l'officier (in French). Paris: Pierre Witte. 1733.
