title: Prony
text: # Prony
  
  Prony or de Prony may refer to:
  
  * Gaspard de Prony (1755–1839), French mathematician and engineer
     * Prony's method, a mathematical method to estimate the components of a signal
     * Prony equation, hydraulics equation for fictional head loss
     * Prony series, a model of viscoelasticity
     * Prony brake, torque measurement device
  * Prony Bay, bay in New Caledonia
  * Prony, a city in New Caledonia, see List of cities in New Caledonia
  * French corvette Prony
  