geometer
n.
geometrician, one who specializes in geometry, mathematician
List of geometers
A geometer is a
mathematician whose area of study is
geometry. Some important geometers and their main fields of work are:
MathematiciansApastamba -
Euclidean geometry,
geometric algebraApollonius of Perga -
Euclidean geometry,
conic sections Archimedes -
Euclidean geometryAlbert Victor BäcklundHenry Frederick Baker -
algebraic geometryBaudhayana -
Euclidean geometry,
geometric algebraLuigi Bianchi -
differential geometryJanos Bolyai -
non-Euclidean geometryPierre Ossian Bonnet -
differential geometryBrahmagupta -
Euclidean geometry,
cyclic quadrilateralsLazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot -
projective geometryArthur CayleyGiovanni Ceva -
Euclidean geometryShiing-Shen Chern -
differential geometryDelfino Codazzi -
differential geometryJ. H. Conway -
sphere packing, recreational geometry
H. S. M. Coxeter - theory of
polytopes,
non-Euclidean geometry,
projective geometryGerminal Dandelin -
Dandelin spheres in
conic sectionsJulius Wilhelm Richard DedekindRené Descartes - invented the methodology
analytic geometryJoseph Diaz Gergonne -
projective geometry;
Gergonne pointGirard Desargues -
projective geometry;
Desargues' theoremEratosthenes -
Euclidean geometryEuclid -
Elements,
Euclidean geometryLeonhard Euler - everything
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach -
Euclidean geometryCarl Friedrich Gauss -
Theorema Egregium.
Hero of Alexandria -
Euclidean geometryRobin Hartshorne - All kinds of geometry, algebraic geomety
William Vallance Douglas HodgeHypatia of Alexandria -
Euclidean geometryJyesthadeva -
Euclidean geometry,
cyclic quadrilateralsKatyayana -
Euclidean geometryFelix KleinSofia Vasilyevna KovalevskayaPhilippe de La Hire -
projective geometryNikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky -
non-Euclidean geometryManava -
Euclidean geometryTobias Mayer Hermann Minkowski -
non-Euclidean geometryAugust Ferdinand Möbius -
Euclidean geometryGaspard Monge -
descriptive geometryMax Noether -
algebraic geometryOmar Khayyam -
algebraic geometry,
conic sectionsBlaise Pascal -
projective geometryDaniel PedoeJohn Playfair -
Euclidean geometryJulius PluckerHenri PoincaréJean-Victor Poncelet -
projective geometryPappus of Alexandria -
Euclidean geometry,
projective geometrySiméon-Denis PoissonPythagoras -
Euclidean geometryBernhard Riemann -
non-Euclidean geometryGiovanni Gerolamo Saccheri -
non-Euclidean geometryNilakantha Somayaji -
geometric progressionsJakob Steiner - a champion of
synthetic geometry methodology,
projective geometry,
Euclidean geometryThabit ibn Qurra -
analytic geometry,
non-Euclidean geometry,
conic sectionsThales of Miletus -
Euclidean geometryAbu'l-Wáfa -
spherical geometry,
non-Euclidean geometryZeno of Elea -
Euclidean geometry
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geometer
Noun
1. a mathematician specializing in geometry
(synonym) geometrician
(hypernym) mathematician
(hyponym) Euclid
Geometer (der)
n.
geometer, geometrician, one who studies geometry
Geometer
(n.)
One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
(n.)
Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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