List of geometers explained
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
1801–1900 AD
1901–present
- 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–) – 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–)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Newton, object 1 (Butlin 306) "Newton". September 25, 2013. William Blake Archive.