The word "Normal" originated from Latin, and was jointly named by Mochi, a master of descriptive geometry, and Laplace, a mathematician, when the Paris Teachers College was founded in 1794: Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris. Translated into English, it is the super normal school in Paris. Normal was first translated into Japanese, using the Chinese character "normal". Beijing Normal University is the first university in China to link normal universities together, and all normal universities in China have adopted this name since then. The English word normal means "normal" in descriptive geometry and "normal distribution" in mathematical analysis, which is a perfect and standardized curve. Nowadays, normal universities are generally used to represent normal colleges.