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Oxyrhynchus papyrus with Euclid's Elements
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to c. 100 AD (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.


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

1–1300 AD

1301–1800 AD

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Leonardo da Vinci
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Johannes Kepler
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Girard Desargues
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René Descartes
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Blaise Pascal
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Isaac Newton
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Leonhard Euler
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Carl Gauss
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August Möbius
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
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John Playfair
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Jakob Steiner

1801–1900 AD

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Julius Plücker
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Arthur Cayley
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Bernhard Riemann
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Richard Dedekind
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Max Noether
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Felix Klein
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Hermann Minkowski
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Henri Poincaré
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Evgraf Fedorov

1901–present


H. S. M. Coxeter
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Ernst Witt
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Benoit Mandelbrot
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Branko Grünbaum
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Michael Atiyah
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J. H. Conway
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William Thurston
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Mikhail Gromov
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George W. Hart
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Shing-Tung Yau
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Károly Bezdek
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Grigori Perelman
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Denis Auroux

Geometers in art

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God as architect of the world, 1220–1230, from Bible moralisée
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Kepler's Platonic solid model of planetary spacing in the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
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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".

See also

  • Mathematics and architecture
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