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A geometer is a
mathematician whose area of study is
geometry.
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
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William Vallance Douglas Hodge (1903–1975)
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Patrick du Val (1903–1987)
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Beniamino Segre (1903–1977) –
combinatorial geometry
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J. C. P. Miller (1906–1981)
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André Weil (1906–1998) –
Algebraic geometry
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H. S. M. Coxeter (1907–2003) – theory of
polytopes,
non-Euclidean geometry,
projective geometry
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J. A. Todd (1908–1994)
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Daniel Pedoe (1910–1998)
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Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004) –
differential geometry
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Ernst Witt (1911–1991)
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Rafael Artzy (1912–2006)
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Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912–1999)
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László Fejes Tóth (1915–2005)
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Edwin Evariste Moise (1918–1998)
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Aleksei Pogorelov (1919–2002) – differential geometry
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Magnus Wenninger (1919–2017) –
polyhedron models
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Jean-Louis Koszul (1921–2018)
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Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988)
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Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023)
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Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010) –
fractal geometry
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Katsumi Nomizu (1924–2008) –
affine differential geometry
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Michael S. Longuet-Higgins (1925–2016)
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John Leech (1926–1992)
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Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014) –
algebraic geometry
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Branko Grünbaum (1929–2018) –
discrete geometry
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Michael Atiyah (1929–2019)
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Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (1908–1988)
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Geoffrey Colin Shephard (1927–2016)
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Norman W. Johnson (1930–2017)
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John Milnor (1931–)
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Roger Penrose (1931–)
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Yuri Manin (1937–2023) –
algebraic geometry and
diophantine geometry
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Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010) –
algebraic geometry
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Ernest Vinberg (1937–2020)
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J. H. Conway (1937–2020) –
sphere packing,
recreational geometry
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Robin Hartshorne (1938–) – geometry, algebraic geometry
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Phillip Griffiths (1938–) –
algebraic geometry,
differential geometry
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Enrico Bombieri (1940–) –
algebraic geometry
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Robert Williams (1942–)
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Peter McMullen (1942–)
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Richard S. Hamilton (1943–) –
differential geometry,
Ricci flow,
Poincaré conjecture
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Mikhail Gromov (1943–)
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Rudy Rucker (1946–)
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William Thurston (1946–2012)
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Shing-Tung Yau (1949–)
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Michael Freedman (1951–)
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Egon Schulte (1955–) –
polytopes
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George W. Hart (1955–) – sculptor
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Károly Bezdek (1955–) –
discrete geometry,
sphere packing,
Euclidean geometry,
non-Euclidean geometry
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Simon Donaldson (1957–)
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Kenji Fukaya (1959–) – symplectic geometry
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Oh Yong-Geun (1961–)
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Toshiyuki Kobayashi (1962–)
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Hiraku Nakajima (1962–) – representation theory and geometry
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Hwang Jun-Muk (1963–) – algebraic geometry, differential geometry
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Grigori Perelman (1966–) –
Poincaré conjecture
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Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017)
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Denis Auroux (1977–)
Geometers in art
See also
References