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One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.[1]

A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry.

Some important geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed are:

800 BC to 1 BC

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Pythagoras
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Euclid
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Archimedes
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Eratosthenes
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Thales
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Plato
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Mozi

1–1400 AD

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Hero of Alexandria
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Omar Khayyam
Saint Virgilius, Salzburg.jpg
Vergilius of Salzburg
Buzjani, the Persian.jpg
Abu'l-Wáfa
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Ibn Maḍāʾ

1401–1800 AD

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Leonardo da Vinci
Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg
Johannes Kepler
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Girard Desargues
Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes.jpg
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
Arthur Cayley.jpg
Arthur Cayley
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Bernhard Riemann
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Julius Dedekind
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Max Noether
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Felix Klein
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Henri Poincaré
Jewgraf Stepanowitsch Fjodorow.jpg
Evgraf Fedorov
Alicia Boole Stott.jpg
Alicia Boole Stott
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Albert Einstein
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Buckminster Fuller
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M. C. Escher

1901–present

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H. S. M. Coxeter
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Ernst Witt
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Benoît Mandelbrot
Branko Grünbaum.jpg
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

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
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Newton (1795), by William Blake; here, Newton is depicted critically as a "divine geometer".[2]

References

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