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Ageometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry.
Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are:
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 |
Julius Plücker |
Arthur Cayley |
Bernhard Riemann |
Richard Dedekind |
Max Noether |
Felix Klein |
Hermann Minkowski |
Henri Poincaré |
Evgraf Fedorov |
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 |
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] |