List of geometers
From Wikinfo
Some important geometers and their main fields of work were:
Mathematicians
- Apollonius of Perga - euclidean geometry, conic sections
- Archimedes - euclidean geometry
- Janos Bolyai - non-euclidean geometry
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - projective geometry
- Arthur Cayley
- Shiing-Shen Chern - 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
- Ren� Descartes -- invented the methodology analytic geometry
- Gergonne - projective geometry
- Girard Desargues (projective geometry, Desargues' theorem)
- Eratosthenes - euclidean geometry
- Euclid - Thirteen Books of Euclid
- La Hire - projective geometry
- Leonhard Euler - everything
- Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach - euclidean geometry
- Hero of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Hypatia of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Felix Klein
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky - non-euclidean geometry
- Hermann Minkowski - non-euclidean geometry
- [[August Ferdinand M�bius]] - euclidean geometry
- Gaspard Monge - differential geometry
- Emmy Noether - ?? algebraic geometry
- Blaise Pascal - projective geometry
- Julius Plucker
- [[Henri Poincar�]]
- Jean Victor Poncelet - projective geometry
- Pappus of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Sim�on-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 - euclidean geometry
Others
- Albert Einstein - non-euclidean geometry
- Maurits Cornelis Escher
- Buckminster Fuller
- Leonardo da Vinci - euclidean geometry
- Isacc Newton - 3rd degree algebraic curves
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - (what's his contribution specific to geometry??)
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_geometers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geometers, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
