 Monge's 1781 memoir is also the earliest known anticipation of Linear Programming type of problems, in particular of the transportation problem.Related to that, the Monge soil-transport problem leads to a weak-topology definition of a distance between distributions rediscovered many times since by such as L. V. Kantorovich, Paul Lévy, Leonid Vaseršteĭn, and others; and bearing their names in various combinations in various contexts.Another of his papers in the volume for 1783 relates to the production of water by the combustion of hydrogen.