List of geometers

"Geometer" redirects here. For the moth family, see geometer moth.
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.[1]

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

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

800 BC to 1 BC

Further information: History of geometry

Pythagoras

Euclid

Archimedes

Eratosthenes

Thales

Plato

Mozi

1–1400 AD


Hero of Alexandria

Omar Khayyam

Vergilius of Salzburg

Abu'l-Wáfa

Ibn Maḍāʾ

1401–1800 AD


Leonardo da Vinci

Johannes Kepler

Girard Desargues

René Descartes

Blaise Pascal

Isaac Newton

Leonhard Euler

Carl Gauss

August Möbius

Nikolai Lobachevsky

John Playfair

Jakob Steiner

1801–1900 AD


Julius Plücker

Arthur Cayley

Bernhard Riemann

Julius Dedekind

Max Noether

Felix Klein

Henri Poincaré

Evgraf Fedorov

Alicia Boole Stott

Albert Einstein

Buckminster Fuller

M. C. Escher

1901–present


H. S. M. Coxeter

Ernst Witt

Benoît Mandelbrot

Branko Grünbaum

Michael Atiyah

J. H. Conway

William Thurston

Mikhail Gromov

George W. Hart

Shing-Tung Yau

Károly Bezdek

Grigori Perelman

Geometers in art


God as architect of the world, 1220–1230, from Bible moralisée

Kepler's Platonic solid model of planetary spacing in the Solar system from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake,with the compass as a symbol for divine order

Newton (1795), by William Blake; here, Newton is depicted critically as a "divine geometer".[2]

References

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