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:
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Mathematicians
- Apastamba - euclidean geometry, geometric algebra
- Apollonius of Perga - euclidean geometry, conic sections
- Archimedes - euclidean geometry
- Albert Victor Bäcklund
- Henry Frederick Baker - algebraic geometry
- Baudhayana - euclidean geometry, geometric algebra
- Luigi Bianchi - differential geometry
- Janos Bolyai - non-euclidean geometry
- Pierre Ossian Bonnet - differential geometry
- Brahmagupta - euclidean geometry, cyclic quadrilaterals
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - projective geometry
- Arthur Cayley
- Giovanni Ceva - euclidean geometry
- Shiing-Shen Chern - differential geometry
- Delfino Codazzi - differential geometry
- J. H. Conway - sphere packing, recreational geometry
- H. S. M. Coxeter - theory of polytopes, non-euclidean geometry, projective geometry
- Germinal Dandelin - Dandelin spheres in conic sections
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind
- René Descartes - invented the methodology analytic geometry
- Joseph Diaz Gergonne - projective geometry; Gergonne point
- Girard Desargues - projective geometry; Desargues' theorem
- Eratosthenes - euclidean geometry
- La Hire - projective geometry
- Euclid - Elements, euclidean geometry
- Leonhard Euler - everything
- Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach - euclidean geometry
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Theorema Egregium.
- Hero of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Robin Hartshorne - All kinds of geometry
- William Vallance Douglas Hodge
- Hypatia of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
- Jyesthadeva - euclidean geometry, cyclic quadrilaterals
- Katyayana - euclidean geometry
- Felix Klein
- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky - non-euclidean geometry
- Manava - euclidean geometry
- Hermann Minkowski - non-euclidean geometry
- August Ferdinand Möbius - euclidean geometry
- Gaspard Monge - descriptive geometry
- Max Noether - algebraic geometry
- Omar Khayyam - algebraic geometry, conic sections
- Blaise Pascal - projective geometry
- Daniel Pedoe
- John Playfair - euclidean geometry
- Julius Plucker
- Henri Poincaré
- Jean-Victor Poncelet - projective geometry
- Pappus of Alexandria - euclidean geometry, projective geometry
- Siméon-Denis Poisson
- Pythagoras - euclidean geometry
- Bernhard Riemann - non-euclidean geometry
- Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri - non-euclidean geometry
- Nilakantha Somayaji - geometric progressions
- Jakob Steiner - a champion of synthetic geometry methodology, projective geometry, euclidean geometry
- Thabit ibn Qurra - analytic geometry, non-euclidean geometry, conic sections
- Thales of Miletus - euclidean geometry
- Abu'l-Wáfa - spherical geometry, non-euclidean geometry
- Zeno of Elea - euclidean geometry
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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