Théodore Oliver was educated at the École Polytechnique in
Paris under the direction of Gaspard Monge, one of the fathers of
descriptive geometry, where he encountered mathematical models designed by
Monge.
Olivier helped found the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in
1830, where he began to develop his own string models that incoprorated
moving parts, allowing him to show whole families of surfaces and their
intersections.
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