List of geometers
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A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry. Some important geometers and their main fields of work are:
Mathematicians
- Apollonius of Perga - euclidean geometry, conic sections
- Archimedes - euclidean geometry
- Albert Victor Bäcklund
- Henry Frederick Baker - algebraic geometry
- Luigi Bianchi -- differential geometry
- Janos Bolyai - non-euclidean geometry
- Pierre Ossian Bonnet -- differential geometry
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - projective geometry
- Arthur Cayley
- Shiing-Shen Chern - differential geometry
- Delfino Codazzi - differential geometry
- J. H. Conway - sphere packing, recreational geometry
- H. S. M. Coxeter -- polytopes, projective geometry, ...
- Germinal Dandelin -- Dandelin spheres in conic sections
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind
- René Descartes -- invented the methodology analytic geometry
- Joseph Diaz Gergonne - Gergonne point, projective geometry
- Girard Desargues (projective geometry, Desargues' theorem)
- Eratosthenes - euclidean geometry
- La Hire - projective geometry
- Euclid - Thirteen Books of Euclid
- Leonhard Euler - everything
- Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach - euclidean geometry
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Theorema Egregium.
- Hero of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- William Vallance Douglas Hodge
- Hypatia of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Felix Klein
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky - non-euclidean geometry
- Hermann Minkowski - non-euclidean geometry
- August Ferdinand Möbius - euclidean geometry
- Gaspard Monge - differential geometry
- Max Noether - ?? algebraic geometry
- Blaise Pascal - projective geometry
- Daniel Pedoe
- Julius Plucker
- Henri Poincaré
- Jean Victor Poncelet - projective geometry
- Pappus of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Siméon-Denis Poisson
- Pythagoras - euclidean geometry
- Bernhard Riemann - non-euclidean geometry
- Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri - non-euclidean geometry
- Jakob Steiner - a champion of synthetic geometry methodology, projective geometry, euclidean geometry
- Thales of Miletus - euclidean geometry
- Zeno of Elea - euclidean geometry
Others
- Albert Einstein - non-euclidean geometry
- Maurits Cornelis Escher (trained as architect; worked as artist; was not a mathematician but used geometrical ideas extensively)
- Buckminster Fuller
- Leonardo da Vinci - euclidean geometry
- Isaac Newton - 3rd degree algebraic curves