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A '''geometer''' is a [[mathematician]] whose area of study is [[geometry]]. |
A '''geometer''' is a [[mathematician]] whose area of study is the historical aspects that define [[geometry]], instead of the analytical geometric studies that becomes conducted from geometricians. |
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Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are: |
Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are: |
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== 1000 BCE to 1 BCE == |
== 1000 BCE to 1 BCE == |
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{{Further|History of geometry}} |
{{Further|History of geometry}} |
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* [[Baudhayana]] (fl. c. 800 BC) – [[Euclidean geometry |
* [[Baudhayana]] (fl. c. 800 BC) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
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* [[Manava]] (c. 750 BC–690 BC) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
* [[Manava]] (c. 750 BC–690 BC) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
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* [[Thales|Thales of Miletus]] (c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
* [[Thales|Thales of Miletus]] (c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
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* [[Thabit ibn Qurra]] (826–901) – [[analytic geometry]], [[non-Euclidean geometry]], [[conic section]]s |
* [[Thabit ibn Qurra]] (826–901) – [[analytic geometry]], [[non-Euclidean geometry]], [[conic section]]s |
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* [[Abul Wáfa|Abu'l-Wáfa]] (940–998) – [[spherical geometry]], [[spherical triangles]] |
* [[Abul Wáfa|Abu'l-Wáfa]] (940–998) – [[spherical geometry]], [[spherical triangles]] |
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* [[Ibn al-Haytham]] (965–c. 1040) |
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* [[Omar Khayyam]] (1048–1131) – [[algebraic geometry]], [[conic section]]s |
* [[Omar Khayyam]] (1048–1131) – [[algebraic geometry]], [[conic section]]s |
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* [[Ibn Maḍāʾ]] (1116–1196) |
* [[Ibn Maḍāʾ]] (1116–1196) |
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* [[Jyesthadeva]] (c. 1500 – c. 1610) – [[Euclidean geometry]], [[cyclic quadrilateral]]s |
* [[Jyesthadeva]] (c. 1500 – c. 1610) – [[Euclidean geometry]], [[cyclic quadrilateral]]s |
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* [[Marin Getaldić]] (1568–1626) |
* [[Marin Getaldić]] (1568–1626) |
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* [[Jacques-François Le Poivre]] (1652–1710) |
* [[Jacques-François Le Poivre]] (1652–1710) – projective geometry |
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* [[Johannes Kepler]] (1571–1630) – (used geometric ideas in astronomical work) |
* [[Johannes Kepler]] (1571–1630) – (used geometric ideas in astronomical work) |
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* [[Edmund Gunter]] (1581–1686) |
* [[Edmund Gunter]] (1581–1686) |
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* [[Pierre de Fermat]] (1607–1665) – [[analytic geometry]] |
* [[Pierre de Fermat]] (1607–1665) – [[analytic geometry]] |
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* [[Blaise Pascal]] (1623–1662) – [[projective geometry]] |
* [[Blaise Pascal]] (1623–1662) – [[projective geometry]] |
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* [[Christiaan Huygens]] ( |
* [[Christiaan Huygens]] (1629–1695) – [[evolute]] |
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* [[Giordano Vitale]] (1633–1711) |
* [[Giordano Vitale]] (1633–1711) |
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* [[Philippe de La Hire]] (1640–1718) – [[projective geometry]] |
* [[Philippe de La Hire]] (1640–1718) – [[projective geometry]] |
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* [[Siméon Denis Poisson]] (1781–1840) |
* [[Siméon Denis Poisson]] (1781–1840) |
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* [[Jean-Victor Poncelet]] (1788–1867) – [[projective geometry]] |
* [[Jean-Victor Poncelet]] (1788–1867) – [[projective geometry]] |
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* [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]] ( |
* [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]] (1789–1857) |
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* [[August Ferdinand Möbius]] (1790–1868) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
* [[August Ferdinand Möbius]] (1790–1868) – [[Euclidean geometry]] |
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* [[Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky]] (1792–1856) – [[hyperbolic geometry]], a [[non-Euclidean geometry]] |
* [[Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky]] (1792–1856) – [[hyperbolic geometry]], a [[non-Euclidean geometry]] |
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* [[Michel Chasles]] (1793–1880) – [[projective geometry]] |
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* [[Germinal Dandelin]] (1794–1847) – [[Dandelin spheres]] in [[conic sections]] |
* [[Germinal Dandelin]] (1794–1847) – [[Dandelin spheres]] in [[conic sections]] |
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* [[Jakob Steiner]] (1796–1863) – champion of [[synthetic geometry]] methodology, [[projective geometry]], [[Euclidean geometry]] |
* [[Jakob Steiner]] (1796–1863) – champion of [[synthetic geometry]] methodology, [[projective geometry]], [[Euclidean geometry]] |
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* [[Marcel Grossmann]] (1878–1936) |
* [[Marcel Grossmann]] (1878–1936) |
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* [[Oswald Veblen]] (1880–1960) – [[projective geometry]], [[differential geometry]] |
* [[Oswald Veblen]] (1880–1960) – [[projective geometry]], [[differential geometry]] |
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* [[Nathan Altshiller Court]] (1881–1968) – author of ''College Geometry'' |
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* [[Emmy Noether]] (1882–1935) – [[algebraic topology]] |
* [[Emmy Noether]] (1882–1935) – [[algebraic topology]] |
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* [[Harry Clinton Gossard]] (1884–1954) |
* [[Harry Clinton Gossard]] (1884–1954) |
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* [[W. V. D. Hodge|William Vallance Douglas Hodge]] (1903–1975) |
* [[W. V. D. Hodge|William Vallance Douglas Hodge]] (1903–1975) |
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* [[Patrick du Val]] (1903–1987) |
* [[Patrick du Val]] (1903–1987) |
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* [[Jean-Louis Koszul]] (1921–2018) |
* [[Jean-Louis Koszul]] (1921–2018) |
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* [[Isaak Yaglom]] (1921–1988) |
* [[Isaak Yaglom]] (1921–1988) |
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* [[Eugenio Calabi]] (1923–2023) |
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* [[Benoit Mandelbrot]] (1924–2010) – [[fractal geometry]] |
* [[Benoit Mandelbrot]] (1924–2010) – [[fractal geometry]] |
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* [[Katsumi Nomizu]] (1924–2008) – [[affine differential geometry]] |
* [[Katsumi Nomizu]] (1924–2008) – [[affine differential geometry]] |
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* [[Robert Williams (geometer)|Robert Williams]] (1942–) |
* [[Robert Williams (geometer)|Robert Williams]] (1942–) |
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* [[Peter McMullen]] (1942–) |
* [[Peter McMullen]] (1942–) |
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* [[Richard S. Hamilton]] ( |
* [[Richard S. Hamilton]] (1943–2024) – [[differential geometry]], [[Ricci flow]], [[Poincaré conjecture]] |
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* [[Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)|Mikhail Gromov]] (1943–) |
* [[Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)|Mikhail Gromov]] (1943–) |
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* [[Rudy Rucker]] (1946–) |
* [[Rudy Rucker]] (1946–) |
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* [[Simon Donaldson]] (1957–) |
* [[Simon Donaldson]] (1957–) |
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* [[Kenji Fukaya]] (1959–) – symplectic geometry |
* [[Kenji Fukaya]] (1959–) – symplectic geometry |
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* [[Yong-Geun Oh]] (1961–) |
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* [[Toshiyuki Kobayashi]] (1962–) |
* [[Toshiyuki Kobayashi]] (1962–) |
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* [[Hiraku Nakajima]] (1962–) – representation theory and geometry |
* [[Hiraku Nakajima]] (1962–) – representation theory and geometry |
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* [[Grigori Perelman]] (1966–) – [[Poincaré conjecture]] |
* [[Grigori Perelman]] (1966–) – [[Poincaré conjecture]] |
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* [[Maryam Mirzakhani]] (1977–2017) |
* [[Maryam Mirzakhani]] (1977–2017) |
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== Geometers in art == |
== Geometers in art == |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [[Geometry]] |
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* [[Mathematics and architecture]] |
* [[Mathematics and architecture]] |
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Geometry |
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Geometers |
A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is the historical aspects that define geometry, instead of the analytical geometric studies that becomes conducted from geometricians.
Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are:
1000 BCE to 1 BCE
[edit]- Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BC) – Euclidean geometry
- 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 – 410 BC) – first systematically organized Stoicheia – Elements (geometry textbook)
- Mozi (c. 468 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
1–1300 AD
[edit]- 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, spherical triangles
- Ibn al-Haytham (965–c. 1040)
- Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) – algebraic geometry, conic sections
- Ibn Maḍāʾ (1116–1196)
1301–1800 AD
[edit]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 |
- 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)
- Jacques-François Le Poivre (1652–1710) – projective geometry
- Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) – (used geometric ideas in astronomical work)
- Edmund Gunter (1581–1686)
- Girard Desargues (1591–1661) – projective geometry; Desargues' theorem
- René Descartes (1596–1650) – invented the methodology of analytic geometry, also called Cartesian geometry after him
- Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) – analytic geometry
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) – projective geometry
- Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) – evolute
- 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
- Johann Jacob Heber (1666–1727) – surveyor and geometer
- 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
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)
- August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868) – Euclidean geometry
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856) – hyperbolic geometry, a non-Euclidean geometry
- Michel Chasles (1793–1880) – projective 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
[edit]Julius Plücker |
Arthur Cayley |
Bernhard Riemann |
Richard Dedekind |
Max Noether |
Felix Klein |
Hermann Minkowski |
Henri Poincaré |
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- 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
- Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809–1877) – exterior algebra
- Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811–1874) – algebraic invariants and geometry
- Ludwig Schlafli (1814–1895) – Regular 4-polytope
- Pierre Ossian Bonnet (1819–1892) – differential geometry
- Arthur Cayley (1821–1895)
- Joseph Bertrand (1822–1900)
- 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)
- Oswald Veblen (1880–1960) – projective geometry, differential geometry
- Nathan Altshiller Court (1881–1968) – author of College Geometry
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935) – algebraic topology
- Harry Clinton Gossard (1884–1954)
- Arthur Rosenthal (1887–1959)
- Helmut Hasse (1898–1979) – algebraic geometry
1901–present
[edit]H. S. M. Coxeter |
Ernst Witt |
Benoit Mandelbrot |
Branko Grünbaum |
Michael Atiyah |
J. H. Conway |
William Thurston |
Mikhail Gromov |
George W. Hart |
Shing-Tung Yau |
Károly Bezdek |
Grigori Perelman |
Denis Auroux |
- William Vallance Douglas Hodge (1903–1975)
- Patrick du Val (1903–1987)
- Beniamino Segre (1903–1977) – combinatorial geometry
- 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 (1921–2018)
- Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988)
- Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023)
- Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010) – fractal geometry
- Katsumi Nomizu (1924–2008) – affine differential geometry
- Michael S. Longuet-Higgins (1925–2016)
- John Leech (1926–1992)
- Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014) – algebraic geometry
- Branko Grünbaum (1929–2018) – discrete geometry
- Michael Atiyah (1929–2019)
- Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (1908–1988)
- Geoffrey Colin Shephard (1927–2016)
- Norman W. Johnson (1930–2017)
- John Milnor (1931–)
- Roger Penrose (1931–)
- Yuri Manin (1937–2023) – algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry
- Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010) – algebraic geometry
- Ernest Vinberg (1937–2020)
- J. H. Conway (1937–2020) – sphere packing, recreational geometry
- Robin Hartshorne (1938–) – geometry, algebraic geometry
- Phillip Griffiths (1938–) – algebraic geometry, differential geometry
- Enrico Bombieri (1940–) – algebraic geometry
- Robert Williams (1942–)
- Peter McMullen (1942–)
- Richard S. Hamilton (1943–2024) – differential geometry, Ricci flow, Poincaré conjecture
- Mikhail Gromov (1943–)
- 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–)
- Kenji Fukaya (1959–) – symplectic geometry
- Yong-Geun Oh (1961–)
- Toshiyuki Kobayashi (1962–)
- Hiraku Nakajima (1962–) – representation theory and geometry
- Hwang Jun-Muk (1963–) – algebraic geometry, differential geometry
- Grigori Perelman (1966–) – Poincaré conjecture
- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017)
- Denis Auroux (1977–)
Geometers in art
[edit]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] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bill Casselman. "One of the Oldest Extant Diagrams from Euclid". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
- ^ "Newton, object 1 (Butlin 306) "Newton"". William Blake Archive. September 25, 2013.