Historical People Geometry

Historical People Geometry

Historical

This category is for early mathematicians that have contributed to the development of the field.

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- Wrote treatise, the Mathematical Collection, as a guide to Greek geometry, discusses theorems and constructions of more than thirty different mathematicians of antiquity.
- Was one of the greatest contributors to projective geometry.
- Theory of functions, non-Euclidian geometry, relativity theory, Famous for the Riemann hypothesis about the behavior of zeros of the Riemann zeta function, which he showed determines the distribution of prime numbers.
- Greek mathematician who was mainly interested in practical studies in mechanics and engineering, best known for Heron's Formula
- known as 'The Great Geometer', great influence on the development of mathematics, famous book Conics introduced terms such as parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.
- The father of differential geometry, he devised a system called Geometrie descriptive, now known as orthographic projection, the graphical method used in modern mechanical drawing.
- Founder of projective geometry, his work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.
- Plücker's assistant at Bonn who studied Analytic Geometry, describing geometry as the study of properties of figures which remain invariant under a Group of Transformations. He systemized Non-Euclidean Geometry.

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