3 lives in this collection worked in military engineering, from 1753 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Engineer, geometer and revolutionary statesman who founded the theory of machines, proved the law of energy loss in inelastic shocks, and organized the armies of the French Republic.
mechanics, geometry, foundations of calculus
French engineer-physicist who discovered polarization by reflection, found the cosine-squared law of polarized intensity, and founded the geometric theory of ray systems.
optics, geometrical optics, polarization
French engineer officer whose single book, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824), introduced the reversible cycle and the efficiency limit of heat engines and founded thermodynamics.
thermodynamics, theory of heat engines, military engineering