A
nomogram (from Greek νόμος
nomos, "law" and γραμμή
grammē, "line"), also called a
nomograph,
alignment chart or
abaque, is a graphical calculating device, a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a
mathematical function. The field of
nomography was invented in 1884 by the French engineer
Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (1862-1938) and used extensively for many years to provide engineers with fast graphical calculations of complicated formulas to a practical precision.
• ... that mathematician Shoshichi Kobayashi studied Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras?