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List of geometers

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List of geometers

A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry.

Contents

Some important geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed are:

800 BC to 1 BC

  • Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BC) - Euclidean geometry, geometric algebra
  • Manava (c. 750 BC–690 BC) - Euclidean geometry
  • Thales of Miletus (c. 624 BC–c. 546 BC) - Euclidean geometry
  • Pythagoras (c. 570 BC–c. 495 BC) - Euclidean geometry, Pythagorean Theorem
  • Zeno of Elea (c. 490 BC–c. 430 BC) - Euclidean geometry
  • Hippocrates of Chios (born c. 470–died 410 BC) - first systematically organized Stoicheia Elements (geometry textbook)
  • Mozi (c. 470 BC–c. 391 BC)
  • Plato (427–347 BC)
  • Theaetetus (c. 417 BC–369 BC)
  • Autolycus of Pitane (360–c. 290 BC) - astronomy, spherical geometry
  • Euclid (fl. 300 BC) - Elements, Euclidean geometry (sometimes called the "father of geometry")
  • Apollonius of Perga (c. 262 BC–c. 190 BC) - Euclidean geometry, conic sections
  • Archimedes (c. 287 BC–c. 212 BC) - Euclidean geometry
  • Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC–c. 195/194 BC) - Euclidean geometry
  • Katyayana (c. 3rd century BC) - Euclidean geometry

    • 1–1400 AD

  • Hero of Alexandria (c. AD 10–70) - Euclidean geometry
  • Pappus of Alexandria (c. AD 290–c. 350) - Euclidean geometry, projective geometry
  • Hypatia of Alexandria (c. AD 370–c. 415) - Euclidean geometry
  • Brahmagupta (597–668) - Euclidean geometry, cyclic quadrilaterals
  • Vergilius of Salzburg (c.700–784) - Irish bishop of Aghaboe, Ossory and later Salzburg, Austria; antipodes, and astronomy.
  • Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī (c. 800–c. 860)
  • Thabit ibn Qurra (826–901) - analytic geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, conic sections
  • Abu'l-Wáfa (940–998) - spherical geometry, non-Euclidean geometry
  • Alhazen (965–c. 1040)
  • Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) - algebraic geometry, conic sections
  • Ibn Maḍāʾ (1116–1196)

    • 1401–1800 AD

  • Piero della Francesca (1415–1492)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) - Euclidean geometry
  • Jyesthadeva (c. 1500–c. 1610) - Euclidean geometry, cyclic quadrilaterals
  • Marin Getaldić (1568–1626)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) - (used geometric ideas in astronomical work)
  • Girard Desargues (1591–1661) - projective geometry; Desargues' theorem
  • René Descartes (1596–1650)) - invented the methodology of analytic geometry, also called Cartesian geometry after him
  • Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) - projective geometry
  • Giordano Vitale (1633–1711)
  • Philippe de La Hire (1640–1718) - projective geometry
  • Isaac Newton (1642–1727) - 3rd-degree algebraic curve
  • Giovanni Ceva (1647–1734) - Euclidean geometry
  • Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri (1667–1733) - non-Euclidean geometry
  • Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
  • Tobias Mayer (1723–1762)
  • Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) - non-Euclidean geometry
  • Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) - descriptive geometry
  • John Playfair (1748–1819) - Euclidean geometry
  • Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753–1823) projective geometry
  • Joseph Diaz Gergonne (1771–1859 ) projective geometry; Gergonne point
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) - Theorema Egregium
  • Louis Poinsot (1777–1859)
  • Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
  • Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) - projective geometry
  • August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868) - Euclidean geometry
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856) - hyperbolic geometry, a non-Euclidean geometry
  • Germinal Dandelin (1794–1847) - Dandelin spheres in conic sections
  • Jakob Steiner (1796–1863) - champion of synthetic geometry methodology, projective geometry, Euclidean geometry

    • 1801–1900 AD

  • Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800–1834) - Euclidean geometry
  • Julius Plücker (1801–1868)
  • János Bolyai (1802–1860) - hyperbolic geometry, a non-Euclidean geometry
  • Christian Heinrich von Nagel (1803–1882) - Euclidean geometry
  • Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882) - topology
  • Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811-1874) - algebraic invariants and geometry
  • Pierre Ossian Bonnet (1819–1892) - differential geometry
  • Arthur Cayley (1821–1895)
  • Delfino Codazzi (1824–1873) - differential geometry
  • Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) - elliptic geometry (a non-Euclidean geometry) and Riemannian geometry
  • Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (1831–1916)
  • Ludwig Burmester (1840–1927) - theory of linkages
  • Edmund Hess (1843–1903)
  • Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845–1922)
  • Max Noether (1844–1921) - algebraic geometry
  • Henri Brocard (1845–1922) - Brocard points
  • William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) - geometric algebra
  • Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1923)
  • Felix Klein (1849–1925)
  • Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
  • Evgraf Fedorov (1853–1919)
  • Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
  • Luigi Bianchi (1856–1928) - differential geometry
  • Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) - non-Euclidean geometry
  • Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956) - algebraic geometry
  • Élie Cartan (1869–1951)
  • Dmitri Egorov (1869–1931) - differential geometry
  • Veniamin Kagan (1869–1953)
  • Raoul Bricard (1870–1944) - descriptive geometry
  • Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928) - Steinitz's theorem
  • Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936)
  • Albert Einstein (1879–1955) - non-Euclidean geometry
  • Oswald Veblen (1880–1960) - projective geometry, differential geometry
  • Emmy Noether (1882–1935) - algebraic topology
  • Harry Clinton Gossard (1884–1954)
  • Arthur Rosenthal (1887–1959)
  • Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)
  • Helmut Hasse (1898–1979) - algebraic geometry
  • Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972) - artist who used geometrical ideas extensively

    • 1901–present

  • William Vallance Douglas Hodge (1903–1975)
  • Patrick du Val (1903–1987)
  • Beniamino Segre (1903–1977) - combinatorial geometry
  • Samuel L. Greitzer (1905–1988) - founding chairman of USA Mathematical Olympiad
  • J. C. P. Miller (1906–1981)
  • André Weil (1906–1998) - Algebraic geometry
  • H. S. M. Coxeter (1907–2003) - theory of polytopes, non-Euclidean geometry, projective geometry
  • J. A. Todd (1908–1994)
  • Daniel Pedoe (1910–1998)
  • Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004) - differential geometry
  • Ernst Witt (1911–1991)
  • Rafael Artzy (1912–2006)
  • Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912–1999)
  • László Fejes Tóth (1915–2005)
  • Edwin Evariste Moise (1918–1998)
  • Aleksei Pogorelov (1919–2002) - differential geometry
  • Magnus Wenninger (1919–2017) - polyhedron models
  • Jean-Louis Koszul (1921–)
  • Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988)
  • Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) - fractal geometry
  • Katsumi Nomizu (1924–2008) - affine differential geometry
  • Michael S. Longuet-Higgins (1925–2016)
  • John Leech (mathematician) (1926–1992)
  • Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014) - algebraic geometry
  • Branko Grünbaum (1929–) - discrete geometry
  • Michael Atiyah (1929–)
  • Geoffrey Colin Shephard (c. 1930–)
  • Norman W. Johnson (1930–)
  • John Milnor (1931–)
  • Roger Penrose (1931–)
  • Yuri Manin (1937–) - algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry
  • Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010) - algebraic geometry
  • Ernest Vinberg (1937–)
  • J. H. Conway ( 1937–) - sphere packing, recreational geometry
  • Robin Hartshorne (1938–) - geometry, algebraic geometry
  • Phillip Griffiths (1938–) - algebraic geometry, differential geometry
  • Enrico Bombieri (1940–) - algebraic geometry
  • Robert Williams (geometer) (1942–)
  • Peter McMullen (1942–)
  • Richard S. Hamilton (1943–) - differential geometry, Ricci flow, Poincaré conjecture
  • Mikhail Gromov (1943–)
  • Roger Burrows (1945–) - applied close packing theory in education
  • Rudy Rucker (1946–)
  • William Thurston (1946–2012)
  • Shing-Tung Yau (1949–)
  • Michael Freedman (1951–)
  • Egon Schulte (1955–) - polytopes
  • George W. Hart (1955–) - sculptor
  • Károly Bezdek (1955–) - Discrete geometry, sphere packing, Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometry
  • Simon Donaldson (1957–)
  • Grigori Perelman (1966–) - Poincaré conjecture
  • Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–)

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