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Geometry

The study of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. Euclid's Elements (c. 300 BCE) organized the subject axiomatically for over two thousand years; the discovery in the nineteenth century that Euclid's parallel postulate could be denied without contradiction opened non-Euclidean geometries, and later the coordinate and differential methods of Descartes and Riemann extended the subject to curved and higher-dimensional space. Geometric knowledge itself long predates Euclid's axiomatic treatment: Egyptian surveyors re-established field boundaries after the Nile's annual floods using practical rules for area and the right angle, Babylonian clay tablets record the same right-triangle relationship later called the Pythagorean theorem alongside other numerical geometry, and Chinese texts such as the Zhoubi Suanjing preserve an independent geometric derivation of that same relationship, called the gougu theorem. Euclid's achievement was to organize inherited geometric knowledge into one deductive system built from stated axioms, not to originate geometry itself.

Facts
Central Question
What can be said about space, shape and figures, and by which method, synthetic construction, coordinates, or an axiom system stated abstractly? 2
Key Debate
Euclid's parallel postulate: is it a necessary truth about physical space, one Euclid himself seemed uneasy stating as an axiom, or merely one consistent choice among several equally valid geometries, as the nineteenth century's discovery of non-Euclidean geometry (Lobachevsky, Bolyai, Gauss) ultimately showed? 2
Classification
Pure or Applied
Both / Interdisciplinary 1
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1. Wikipedia: Geometry
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  • Lead section, opening paragraph
    Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
  • Applications section
    Originally developed to model the physical world, geometry has applications in almost all sciences, and also in art, architecture, and other activities that are related to graphics.
  • In Group: Classical and Elementary Geometry, lead paragraph
    Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
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University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry/
    In about 300 BC Euclid wrote The Elements, a book which was to become one of the most famous books ever written.
  • Associated With: Euclid, https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euclid/
    The Elements is remarkable for the clarity with which the theorems are stated and proved.
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Algebraic Geometry (Wikipedia)
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Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometrical problems.
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Kepler Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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Pythagorean Theorem (Wikipedia)
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the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras's theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.
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Poincare Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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In the mathematical field of geometric topology, the Poincaré conjecture (UK: , US: , French: [pwɛ̃kaʁe]) is a theorem about the characterization of the 3-sphere (the hypersphere that bounds the 4-ball in four-dimensional space).
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Hodge Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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the Hodge conjecture is a major unsolved problem in algebraic geometry and complex geometry
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Wikipedia: Heptadecagon
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In geometry, a heptadecagon, septadecagon or 17-gon is a seventeen-sided polygon.
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Trigonometry (Wikipedia)
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The field emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BC from applications of geometry to astronomical studies.
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Lie Theory (Wikipedia)
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The subject is part of differential geometry since Lie groups are differentiable manifolds.
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Henri Brocard (MacTutor biography)
Includes: Henri Brocard, Summary
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Henri Brocard was a French mathematician best known for his discovery of the so-called Brocard points of a triangle.
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Zimmer's Conjecture (Wikipedia)
Includes: Zimmer's Conjecture, Lead
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Zimmer's conjecture is a statement in mathematics "which has to do with the circumstances under which geometric spaces exhibit certain kinds of symmetries." It was named after the mathematician Robert Zimmer.
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Tangent-secant theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Tangent-Secant Theorem, Lead
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In Euclidean geometry, the tangent-secant theorem describes the relation of line segments created by a secant and a tangent line with the associated circle.
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Apollonius of Perga (MacTutor)
Includes: Apollonius of Perga, Biography, lead
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Apollonius of Perga was known as 'The Great Geometer'
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Lorenzo Mascheroni (MacTutor)
Includes: Lorenzo Mascheroni, Summary
Quote, Includes: Lorenzo Mascheroni, Summary
Lorenzo Mascheroni was a geometer who proved in 1797 that all Euclidean constructions can be made with compasses alone, so a straight edge in not needed.
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Georg Mohr (MacTutor)
Includes: Georg Mohr, Biography, Euclides danicus
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The book contains a proof that all Euclidean constructions can be carried out with compasses alone.
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Jean Victor Poncelet (MacTutor)
Includes: Jean-Victor Poncelet, Summary
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Jean-Victor Poncelet was one of the founders of modern projective geometry.
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Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (Wikipedia)
Includes: Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Lead, field
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was a German geometer
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Henry Frederick Baker (MacTutor)
Includes: Henry Frederick Baker, Summary
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worked on Geometry and Analysis
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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (MacTutor)
Includes: Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Summary
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work was mainly in geometry
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Bernard Lamy (MacTutor)
Includes: Bernard Lamy, Summary
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Bernard Lamy was a French mathematician who wrote on geometry and mechanics.
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Girard Desargues (MacTutor)
Includes: Girard Desargues, Summary
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Girard Desargues was a French mathematician who was a founder of projective geometry.
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Federico Commandino (MacTutor)
Includes: Federico Commandino, Biography, Euclid translation
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However the son of the Duke requested that Commandino prepare a Latin translation of Euclid 's Elements and he set to work enthusiastically on this major task.
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Micha Perles (Wikipedia)
Includes: Micha Perles, Lead
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an Israeli mathematician working in geometry and combinatorics
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Edmond Laguerre (Wikipedia)
Includes: Edmond Laguerre, Lead, areas of work (geometry)
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His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis.
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Charles Julien Brianchon (Wikipedia)
Includes: Charles Julien Brianchon, Work
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His book Mémoire sur les lignes du second ordre
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Otto Haupt (Wikipedia)
Includes: Otto Haupt, Research and publications
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Haupt specialized in geometry and real analysis
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Johannes Hjelmslev (Wikipedia)
Includes: Johannes Hjelmslev, Lead
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Hjelmslev worked in geometry and history of geometry.
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Vincenzo Viviani biography (MacTutor)
Includes: Vincenzo Viviani, Summary
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Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian engineer who worked on the geometry of the cycloid.
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Émile Lemoine biography (MacTutor)
Includes: Émile Lemoine, Biography, mathematical work
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Lemoine's contribution to mathematics was mainly on geometry
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William Kingdon Clifford (Wikipedia)
Includes: William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematics
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Clifford was above all and before all a geometer.
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E. H. Moore (Wikipedia)
Includes: E. H. Moore, Accomplishments, branch
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he began working on the foundations of geometry
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MacTutor History of Mathematics: Claudius Ptolemy
MacTutor History of MathematicsIncludes: Ptolemy, Biography, geometry
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Ptolemy devised new geometrical proofs and theorems.
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Kenneth Falconer (Wikipedia)
Includes: Kenneth Falconer, Lead sentence, fractal geometry
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in particular on fractal geometry
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Hallard Croft (Wikipedia)
Includes: Hallard Croft, Life and career
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Unsolved Problems in Geometry
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John Casey (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
Includes: John Casey, Lead
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was a respected Irish geometer
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Theodorus of Cyrene (Wikipedia)
Includes: Theodorus of Cyrene, Lead, Spiral of Theodorus
Quote, Includes: Theodorus of Cyrene, Lead, Spiral of Theodorus
which is often thought to have been the construction now known as the Spiral of Theodorus
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Maryam Mirzakhani (Wikipedia)
Includes: Maryam Mirzakhani, Lead
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Her research focused on hyperbolic geometry, dynamical systems, complex analysis, and topology.
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Arnold Emch (Wikipedia)
Includes: Arnold Emch, Lead, field of work
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known for his work on the inscribed square problem
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Mary Frances Winston Newson (MacTutor)
Includes: Henry Byron Newson, Biography, 1900 marriage, his book
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Continuous groups of projective transformations treated synthetically
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Ludwig Otto Hesse (MacTutor)
Includes: Otto Hesse, Biography, principle of transfer
Quote, Includes: Otto Hesse, Biography, principle of transfer
Another result by Hesse which has proved particularly influential is the 'principle of transfer' which he gave in 1866 during his work on projective geometry.
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Carl Hierholzer (Wikipedia)
Includes: Carl Hierholzer, Biography, habilitation
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In 1870 Hierholzer wrote his habilitation about conic sections
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Ludwig Schläfli (MacTutor)
Includes: Ludwig Schläfli, Summary, fields of work
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Ludwig Schläfli 's work was in geometry, arithmetic and function theory.
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Schläfli symbol (Wikipedia)
Includes: Schläfli symbol, Lead, branch
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In geometry, the Schläfli symbol is a notation of the form
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MacTutor History of Mathematics: Arnold Droz-Farny (MacTutor)
MacTutor History of MathematicsIncludes: Arnold Droz-Farny, Biography
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By this time he had developed a strong preference for geometry.
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Christian Wiener (Wikipedia)
Includes: Christian Wiener, Lead, field of work
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was a German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry
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Julius Plücker (Wikipedia)
Includes: Julius Plücker, Lead
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fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry
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Luigi Cremona (Wikipedia)
Includes: Luigi Cremona, Lead, geometry
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His life was devoted to the study of geometry
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Wilhelm Wirtinger (Wikipedia)
Includes: Wilhelm Wirtinger, Lead, geometry
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working in complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups, and knot theory
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Wilhelm Fiedler (Wikipedia)
Includes: Wilhelm Fiedler, Lead
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known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry
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Marcel Grossmann (Wikipedia)
Includes: Marcel Grossmann, Lead, descriptive geometry
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specializing in descriptive geometry
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Dansk Biografisk Leksikon: L.C. Mollerup (Dansk Biografisk Leksikon)
Dansk Biografisk LeksikonIncludes: Johannes Mollerup, Entry text on the nephew, thesis
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Studier over den plane Geometris Axiomer
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José Echegaray (Wikipedia)
Includes: José Echegaray, Academic career
Quote, Includes: José Echegaray, Academic career
Problemas de geometría analítica (1865)
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Wilhelm Franz Meyer (Wikipedia)
Includes: Wilhelm Franz Meyer, Life and work
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is centred basically on geometry and, specifically, on invariant theory
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Jacques Tits (Wikipedia)
Includes: Jacques Tits, Lead, incidence geometry
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who worked on group theory and incidence geometry
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Witch of Agnesi (Wikipedia)
Includes: Witch of Agnesi, Lead
Quote, Includes: Witch of Agnesi, Lead
is a cubic plane curve defined from two diametrically opposite points of a circle
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Paul Libois (Wikipedia)
Includes: Paul Libois, Activité pédagogique, geometry
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professeur de géométrie et de théorie des groupes
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Edmond Halley (MacTutor)
Includes: Edmond Halley, Biography, Oxford chair
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Halley was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford in 1704
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Julio Rey Pastor (MacTutor)
Includes: Julio Rey Pastor, Biography, geometry
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This resulted in two major publications on geometry in 1912 and 1916.
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Adriaan Anthonisz (Wikipedia)
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Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527-1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications.
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Adriaan van Roomen (Wikipedia)
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van Roomen (29 September 1561-4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late
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Baha al-Din al-Amili (Wikipedia)
Includes: Baha al-Din al-Amili, Lead, field of work
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A prolific author in both Arabic and Persian, Sheikh Bahaʾī composed over one hundred treatises spanning jurisprudence, logic, astronomy, mathematics, and theology-primarily in his mother tongue, Arabic.
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Bernardino Baldi (Wikipedia)
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Bernardino Baldi (5 June 1553-10 October 1617) was an Italian mathematician, poet, translator and priest. == Biography == Baldi descended from a noble family from Urbino, Marche, where he was born.
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Camillo Agrippa (Wikipedia)
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Camillo Agrippa (1520-1 January 1600) was a noted fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance.
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Christopher Clavius (Wikipedia)
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Clavius, (25 March 1538-6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by
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Ludolph Van Ceulen (MacTutor)
Includes: Ludolph van Ceulen, Biography, polygons for pi
Quote, Includes: Ludolph van Ceulen, Biography, polygons for pi
he spent the rest of his life obtaining better approximations to π using Archimedes ' method with regular polygons with many sides
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Thomas Digges (MacTutor)
Includes: Thomas Digges, Biography, Pantometria
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Digges wrote on platonic solids and archimedian solids
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Conrad Dasypodius (Wikipedia)
Includes: Conrad Dasypodius, Lead, field of work
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Conrad Dasypodius (1532-26 April 1600) was a Swiss astronomer, mathematician, and writer.
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David Gans (Wikipedia)
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David Gans (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז; ‎1541-25 August 1613), also known as Rabbi Dovid Solomon Ganz, was a German-Jewish chronicler, mathematician, historian, astronomer and astrologer.
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Francesco Barozzi (Wikipedia)
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Barozzi helped in the general reappraisal of the geometry of Euclid
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Adriaan Metius (Wikipedia)
Includes: Adriaan Metius, Lead, occupation
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was a Dutch geometer and astronomer
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Benjamin Bramer (Wikipedia)
Includes: Benjamin Bramer, Career, pantograph
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he constructed an early pantograph enabling him to draw accurate geometric perspective
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Fabrizio Mordente (Wikipedia)
Includes: Fabrizio Mordente, Lead, the compass
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the solution of problems in measuring the circumference, area and angles of a circle
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Georges Fournier (Jesuit) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Georges Fournier, Works, geometry
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His works on Euclidean geometry (Paris, 1644 and 1654) were translated into English
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Gaṇeśa Daivajña (Wikipedia)
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Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, fl. 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars.
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Giambattista Benedetti (Wikipedia)
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(Gianbattista) Benedetti (14 August 1530-20 January 1590) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. == Science of motion == In his works
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Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (MacTutor)
Includes: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Biography, conic sections
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elaborated the theory of conic sections on the basis of Commandino's editions of Archimedes
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Andreas Albrecht (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Andreas Albrecht (Nuremberg 1586, Hamburg 1628) was a German mathematician and engineer.
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Augustin Hirschvogel (Wikipedia)
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Augustin Hirschvogel (1503, February 1553) was a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings.
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Bartolomeo Sovero (Wikipedia)
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Bartolomeo Sovero (1576-23 July 1629) was a Swiss mathematician. == Biography == Sovero was born in Corbières in 1576.
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Guidobaldo del Monte (Wikipedia)
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Guidobaldi or Guido Baldi), Marquis del Monte, was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer of the 16th century. == Biography == Del Monte was born in Pesaro.
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Johannes Praetorius (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Johannes Praetorius or Johann Richter (1537-27 October 1616) was a German mathematician and astronomer. == Life == Praetorius was born in Jáchymov, Bohemia.
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Juan Bautista Villalpando (Wikipedia)
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Juan Bautista Villalpando also Villalpandus, or Villalpanda (1552-22 May 1608) was a Spanish priest, a member of the Jesuits, a scholar, mathematician, and architect. == Life == Villalpando was born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1552.
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Juan de Herrera (Wikipedia)
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Juan de Herrera (1530-15 January 1597) was a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician.
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Leonard Digges (scientist) (Wikipedia)
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Leonard Digges (c.1515, c.1559) was a English mathematician and surveyor, credited with the invention of the theodolite, and a great populariser of science through his writings in English on surveying, cartography, and military engineering.
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Ostilio Ricci (Wikipedia)
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Ostilio Ricci da Fermo (1540-1603) was an Italian mathematician. == Biography == He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari.
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Pedro Nunes (Wikipedia)
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Pedro Nunes (Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈnunɨʃ]; Latin: Petrus Nonius; 1502-11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, probably from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family.
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Thomas Blundeville (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522, c. 1606) was an English humanist writer and mathematician.
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Christoph Scheiner (Wikipedia)
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He spent the years 1598-1601 in Ingolstadt studying philosophy (metaphysics and mathematics).
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Xu Guangqi (Wikipedia)
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Xu Guangqi or Hsü Kuang-ch'i (April 24, 1562, November 8, 1633), also known by his baptismal name Paul or Paul Siu, was a Chinese agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, politician, and writer during the late Ming dynasty.
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Marino Ghetaldi (Wikipedia)
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A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics.
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Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus (Wikipedia)
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Johannes Storms of Mechelen, also known as Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus, or simply Sturmius or Mechlinianus (1559-1650) was a mathematician, physician and poet from the Spanish Netherlands. == Life == Sturmius was born in Mechelen on 29 August 1559.
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Alexander Anderson (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Daniel Schwenter (Wikipedia)
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Daniel Schwenter (Schwender) (31 January 1585-19 January 1636) was a German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian. == Biography == Schwenter was born in Nuremberg.
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Edmund Gunter (Wikipedia)
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Edmund Gunter (1581-10 December 1626), was an English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer of Welsh descent.
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François d'Aguilon (Wikipedia)
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François d'Aguilon (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa daɡilɔ̃]; also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567-20 March 1617) was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist, and architect from the Spanish Netherlands.
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Jan Brożek (Wikipedia)
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Jan Brożek or Johannes Broscius (November 1585-21 November 1652) was the most prominent Polish mathematician of his era and an early biographer of Copernicus.
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Jean-Charles della Faille (Wikipedia)
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1 March 1597 and died in Barcelona, 4 November 1652, was a Flemish Jesuit priest from Brabant, and a mathematician of repute. == Biography == Jean-Charles della Faille was born in Antwerp, part of the Spanish Empire at that
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Claude Mydorge (Wikipedia)
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Claude Mydorge (1585, July 1647) was a French mathematician.
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Muzio Oddi (Wikipedia)
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Muzio or Mutio Oddi (15 December 1569-15 December 1639) was an Italian mathematician and Gnomonist. == Biography == He was born to Lisabetta Genga and Lattanzio Oddi.
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Paul Guldin (Wikipedia)
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Paul Guldin (born Habakkuk Guldin; 12 June 1577 (Mels), 3 November 1643 (Graz)) was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer.
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Pierre Hérigone (Wikipedia)
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Pierre Hérigone (Latinized as Petrus Herigonius) (1580-1643) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
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Richard Norwood (Wikipedia)
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Richard Norwood (b. c. 1590, d. 1675) was an English mathematician, diver, and surveyor.
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Peter Turner (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Peter Turner (1586-1652) was an English mathematician. == Life == He matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford in 1600, and graduated M.A. at Christ Church, Oxford in 1605.
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Richard White (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Richard White (Latin: Ricardus Albius; 1590-1682) was an English mathematician and physicist.
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Samuel Marolois (Wikipedia)
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Marolois (c. 1572, before 1627) was a Dutch mathematician and military engineer who is best known for his work on perspective. == Life and work == Marolois (or Marlois) was born c. 1572 in the Dutch Republic (possibly in The Hague) as son of Nicolas
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Sun Yuanhua (Wikipedia)
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Converting to Roman Catholicism under the influence of the Chinese Jesuit mission, he became a protégé of Paul Xu, who instructed him in western mathematics and use of firearms.
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Vincent Léotaud (Wikipedia)
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Vincent Léotaud (1595-1672) was a French Jesuit mathematician.
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Adam Adamandy Kochański (Wikipedia)
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best known of his works, Observationes Cyclometricae ad facilitandam Praxin accommodatae, is devoted to the squaring the circle (or alternatively, the quadrature of the circle) and was published in 1685 in the leading scientific periodical of the time, Acta
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Antoine de Laloubère (Wikipedia)
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he has a better claim to distinction in having been the first mathematician to study the properties of the
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Antoine Parent (Wikipedia)
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Antoine Parent (September 16, 1666, September 26, 1716) was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions.
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Charles Scarborough (Wikipedia)
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As a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the author of a treatise on anatomy, Syllabus Musculorum, which was used for many years as a textbook, and a translator and commentator on the first six books of Euclid's Elements, published in 1705.
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Claude Hardy (Wikipedia)
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His first published original works were two papers on the duplication of the cube, titled Examen and Refutation, they were published in 1630 and 1638 respectively.
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Frans van Schooten (Wikipedia)
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Frans van Schooten Jr., also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten (1615-29 May 1660), was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes.
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Abraham Robertson (Wikipedia)
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Savilian Chair of Geometry
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Aida Yasuaki (Wikipedia)
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number theory and geometry
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Ajima Naonobu (Wikipedia)
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inscribing three mutually tangent circles in a triangle
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Gilles de Roberval (Wikipedia)
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Another of Roberval’s discoveries was a very general method of drawing tangents, by considering a curve as described by a moving point whose motion is the resultant of several simpler motions.
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Philippe de La Hire (Wikipedia)
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La Hire wrote on graphical methods, 1673; on conic sections, 1685; a treatise on epicycloids, 1694; one on roulettes, 1702; and, lastly, another on conchoids, 1708.
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Guillaume de l'Hôpital (Wikipedia)
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His Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problêmes tant déterminés qu'indéterminés ("Analytic treatise on conic sections") was published posthumously in Paris in 1707.
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Tommaso Ceva (Wikipedia)
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His only mathematical work, published in 1699 was the Opuscula Mathematica (Mathematical Essays), which dealt with geometry, gravity and arithmetic.
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Johan de Witt (Wikipedia)
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Elementa Curvarum Linearum has been described as the first textbook in analytic geometry.
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Clelia Grillo Borromeo (Wikipedia)
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She spoke eight languages and was interested in geometry, natural science and mathematics.
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François Barrême (Wikipedia)
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de toutes les monnoyes (1669) Le Livre facile pour apprendre l’arithmétique de soy-même & sans maître (1672) La géométrie servant au mesurage et à l'arpentage : ,ouvrage si facile & si commode, que par la seule addition on peut mesurer toutes sortes de
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John Greaves (Wikipedia)
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He was Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London
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John Collins (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Geometricall Dyalling, or Dyalling performed by a Line of Chords only
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Luigi Guido Grandi (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics Grandi is best known for his work Flores geometrici (1728), studying the rose curve, a curve which has the shape of a petalled flower, and for Grandi's series.
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Stefano degli Angeli (Wikipedia)
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From 1654 to 1667, he devoted himself to the study of geometry, continuing the research of Cavalieri and Evangelista Torricelli based on the method of Indivisibles.
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Jacques-François Le Poivre (Wikipedia)
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Jacques-François Le Poivre (11 February 1652-6 December 1710) was a mathematician and geometer who was a pioneer of projective geometry.
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Antonio Maria Bordoni (Wikipedia)
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did research on mathematical analysis, geometry, and mechanics
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Giordano Vitale (Wikipedia)
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He is best known for his theorem on Saccheri quadrilaterals.
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Farkas Bolyai (Wikipedia)
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mainly known for his work in geometry
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Gian Francesco Malfatti (Wikipedia)
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posing the Malfatti problem
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Muramatsu Shigekiyo (Wikipedia)
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He is known for being the first to calculate the volume of a sphere using very thin slices, and to use inscribed and circumscribed polygones to approximate the circumference of a circle, and hence π.
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Étienne Bobillier (Wikipedia)
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noted for his work on geometry
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Gregorio Fontana (Wikipedia)
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credited with the introduction of polar coordinates
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Joseph Saurin (Wikipedia)
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He was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis.
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Ottavio Scarlattini (Wikipedia)
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Analoghe proportioni sopra il non anche risoluto problema d'Euclide per la quadratura del circolo.
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Pietro Paolo Caravaggio (Wikipedia)
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Caravaggio is well known for the work In geometria male restaurata that he dedicated to king Philip IV of Spain, in which he introduces geometry as the queen of arts, architecture, industry, and domain of the territory.
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Giovanni Antonio Lecchi (Wikipedia)
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In his second work he dealt with mathematical analysis according to the basic elements of Newton's method, and provided also a full course of geometry, algebra and trigonometry.
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Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle (Wikipedia)
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He contributed 270 articles to the Encyclopédie in the subjects of arithmetic and geometry.
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Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (Wikipedia)
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In 1740, he published a work on analytical geometry in which he applied geometry, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.
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Giovanni Fagnano (Wikipedia)
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Fagnano is known for Fagnano's problem, the problem of inscribing a minimum-perimeter triangle within an acute triangle.
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Nicolaus I Bernoulli (Wikipedia)
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In 1716 he obtained the Galileo-chair at the University of Padua, where he worked on differential equations and geometry.
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David Gregory (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
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Exercitatio geometrica de dimensione figurarum, via Google Books 1695: Catoptricæ et dioptricæ sphæricæ elementa Archived 7 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library 1703: (editor) Euclides quae supersunt omnia
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Willem 's Gravesande (Wikipedia)
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His Essai de perspective ("Essay on Perspective"), published in 1711, was praised by the influential Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli.
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Gilles-François de Gottignies (Wikipedia)
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Elementa geometriae planae.
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Charles Étienne Louis Camus (Wikipedia)
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Part 2: Élémens de géométrie, théorique et pratique (1750).
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Abbondio Collina (Wikipedia)
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He was also named lecturer of geometry, endowed by his brother Marco Antonio Collina Sbaraglia.
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Joannes Disma Floriantschitsch de Grienfeld (Wikipedia)
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and to some extent also the Moon and the planets for the Gregorian calendar for the Ljubljana meridian, a geometry manual, writings about squaring the circle, and his own observations on the Sun and
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Humphry Ditton (Wikipedia)
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He was author of the following memoirs and treatises: Of the Tangents of Curves, published in Philosophical Transactions vol. xxiii; A Treatise on Spherical Catoptrics, published in the Phil.
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Leonty Magnitsky (Wikipedia)
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From 1701 and until his death, he taught arithmetic, geometry and trigonometry at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation, becoming its director in 1716.
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Claude Dechales (Wikipedia)
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He published a treatise on mathematics and a translation of the works of Euclid.
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Jean François Niceron (Wikipedia)
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on finding a scientific solution to the problems presented by perspective, Niceron worked out the geometric algorithms for producing anamorphic art and in 1638, at the age of 25, published a treatise titled La perspective curieuse, ou magie
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Joseph Privat de Molières (Wikipedia)
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Collège royal de France, 4 vol., 1734-1739 Traité synthétique des lignes du premier et du second genre, ou Éléments de géométrie dans l'ordre de leur
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Nicolas de Malézieu (Wikipedia)
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Le Journal des savants reported in detail the observations he made in this work on geometry and infinitely small numbers.
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Giacomo F. Maraldi (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics he is most known for obtaining the angle in the rhombic dodecahedron shape in 1712, which is still called the Maraldi angle.
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Pierre Dangicourt (Wikipedia)
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Dangicourt's publications include works on conic sections and on the binary number system invented by Leibniz.
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Theodorus Moretus (Wikipedia)
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Theodorus Moretus, also known as Theodor or Theodore Moretus (1602-1667) was a Flemish Jesuit priest who was also a mathematician, geometer, theologian and philosopher.
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André Tacquet (Wikipedia)
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1651: Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV (Antwerp) full text 1654: Elementa geometriae (Antwerp) 1656: Arithmeticae theoria et praxis (Louvain) 1659: Cylindricorum et annularium liber V (Antwerp) full text 1669: Opera mathematica (in Latin).
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Nicholas Saunderson (Wikipedia)
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In 1700 a tutor taught him algebra and geometry, and in 1702 he attended Attercliffe Academy, near Sheffield, for logic and metaphysics.
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Stanisław Solski (Wikipedia)
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Machina motum perpetuum exhibens, 1661 Machina exhibendo motui perpetuo artificiali idonea, 1663 Geometra Polski: Księga 1, Księga 2, Księga 3, 1683-1686 Architekt Polski, 1688 Solski, Stanislaw (1688).
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John Müller (Wikipedia)
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Mathematical Treatise: Containing a System of Conic-sections; with the doctrine of fluxions and fluents, applied to various subjects (1736) A Treatise Containing the Elementary Part of Fortification (1746) Elements of Mathematics (1748, also titled A System
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Jean Du Breuil (Wikipedia)
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He is known for his work about the theory and practice of perspective.
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Jean-Baptiste Biot (MacTutor)
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Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French mathematician who worked in astronomy, elasticity, electricity and magnetism, heat, optics and geometry.
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William Moir (Wikipedia)
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Geometry and the Mechanical Part of Mathematics
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Nicola Fergola (Wikipedia)
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He was the founder of the synthetic school, whose teaching centred on pure geometry and the methods of classical mathematics.
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Colin Maclaurin (Wikipedia)
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Colin Maclaurin (; Scottish Gaelic: Cailean MacLabhruinn ; February 1698-14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra.
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Jean-Robert Argand (Wikipedia)
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In 1806, while managing a bookstore in Paris, he published the idea of the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers known as the Argand diagram and is known for the first rigorous proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.
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Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (Wikipedia)
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Towards the close of 1794, when the École polytechnique was established, he was appointed along with Monge over the department of descriptive geometry.
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Joseph Diez Gergonne (Wikipedia)
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The most common subject of articles in his journal was geometry, Gergonne's specialty.
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Michel Chasles (Wikipedia)
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a study of the method of reciprocal polars in projective geometry
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François Peyrard (Wikipedia)
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his main contributions are translations of Euclidean geometry
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John Playfair (Wikipedia)
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Playfair's textbook Elements of Geometry made a brief expression of Euclid's parallel postulate known now as Playfair's axiom.
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Olry Terquem (Wikipedia)
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He is known for his works in geometry and for founding two scientific journals, one of which was the first journal about the history of mathematics.
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Jacob Struve (Wikipedia)
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In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, which were based on the works of Kästner, Leonhard Euler and Georg Simon Klügel.
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George Darley (Wikipedia)
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A System of Popular Geometry (John Taylor, London, 1826).
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Wang Zhenyi (astronomer) (Wikipedia)
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Her paper The Explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem and Trigonometry focuses on foundational geometric principles
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Alessandro Galilei (Wikipedia)
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With him young Galilei worked on the study of building techniques, stereometry, hydraulics.
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Balanos Vasilopoulos (Wikipedia)
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He is known for attempting to solve doubling the cube.
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Germinal Pierre Dandelin (Wikipedia)
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Dandelin's theorem in geometry
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Filippo Antonio Revelli (Wikipedia)
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He was professor of geometry for 26 years at the University of Turin.
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Camille-Christophe Gerono (Wikipedia)
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He concerned himself above all with geometry.
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Théodore Olivier (Wikipedia)
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Olivier is mainly known for the construction of three-dimensional models of geometry for pedagogical purposes.
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John Lodge Cowley (Wikipedia)
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He also published a number of introductory works on solid geometry incorporating fold-up figures
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Pierre Joseph Étienne Finck (Wikipedia)
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seven text books on algebra, geometry, mechanics and calculus
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Ludwig Immanuel Magnus (Wikipedia)
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published a paper about the inversion transformation, which leads to inversive geometry
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MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews: William Wallace (mathematician) (biography)
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Wallace's work was on geometry
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Giovanni Cassini (MacTutor)
Includes: Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Biography, Cassinian curve
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In 1680 he studied the Cassinian curve which is the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed foci is constant.
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Cassini oval (Wikipedia)
Includes: Cassini oval, Lead, branch
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In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve
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MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews: John Bonnycastle (biography)
MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St AndrewsIncludes: John Bonnycastle, Biography, Elements of geometry
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Bonnycastle's Elements of geometry (1789) contains the propositions from Euclid
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (MacTutor)
Includes: Anaxagoras, Biography, Proclus
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae dealt with many questions in geometry
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Zhang Heng (MacTutor)
Includes: Zhang Heng, Biography, mathematics
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Zhang also gave formulae for the volume of a sphere in terms of the volume of the circumscribing cube.
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Circular segment (Wikipedia)
Includes: Circular segment, Lead, branch
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In geometry, a circular segment or disk segment
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Ferdinand Verbiest (MacTutor)
Includes: Ferdinand Verbiest, Biography, Beijing
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He became a tutor to the Kangxi Emperor teaching him geometry
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Samuel Klingenstierna (Wikipedia)
Includes: Samuel Klingenstierna, Lead, professorship
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Klingenstierna was a professor of geometry at Uppsala University from 1728
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Étienne-Louis Malus (Wikipedia)
Includes: Étienne-Louis Malus, Lead and body, field of work
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He studied geometric systems called ray systems, closely connected to Julius Plücker's line geometry.
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Paul de Clermont (Wikipedia)
Includes: Paul de Clermont, Lead
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His book about practical geometry
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Claude Rabuel (Wikipedia)
Includes: Claude Rabuel, Lead
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He analyzed Descartes's Géométrie
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Archytas (Wikipedia)
Includes: Archytas, Works
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the first to solve the problem of doubling the cube
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Zu Chongzhi (Wikipedia)
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finding the volume of a sphere as
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Proclus (Wikipedia)
Includes: Proclus, Works, Commentary on Euclid
Quote, Includes: Proclus, Works, Commentary on Euclid
The influential commentary on the first book of Euclid
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William Braikenridge (Wikipedia)
Includes: William Braikenridge, Works
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In geometry the Braikenridge
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Miles Bland (Wikipedia)
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Geometrical Problems
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Braikenridge-Maclaurin theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Braikenridge-Maclaurin theorem, Lead
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In geometry, the Braikenridge
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Menaechmus (MacTutor)
Includes: Menaechmus, Summary
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He was the first to investigate the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola as sections of a cone.
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Louis Bertrand (mathematician) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Louis Bertrand (mathematician), Biography, geometry treatise
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which included a demonstration of Euclid's postulates that gained fame before the rise of non-Euclidean geometry and influenced most of the elementary geometry treatises of the 19th century
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Emil Weyr (Wikipedia)
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known for his numerous publications on geometry
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Heinrich Schröter (Wikipedia)
Includes: Heinrich Schroeter, Lead, field
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who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner
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Daniel Cresswell (Wikipedia)
Includes: Daniel Cresswell, Major works, linear perspective
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The Elements of Linear Perspective, Cambridge, 1811
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Georg Frederik Ursin (Wikipedia)
Includes: Georg Frederik Ursin, Education, polyhedron prize
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Having won a prize assignment involving regular polyhedron
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Giambattista Suardi (Wikipedia)
Includes: Giambattista Suardi, Life, essay on curves
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con alcune osservazioni sopra de' poligoni rettilinei regolari
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Israel Zamosz (Wikipedia)
Includes: Israel Zamosz, Biography
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a work on descriptive geometry and astronomy
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Shlomo Sternberg (Wikipedia)
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known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory
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Vladimir Rokhlin (Wikipedia)
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made numerous contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, measure theory, probability theory, ergodic theory and entropy theory
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Friedrich Schur (Wikipedia)
Includes: Friedrich Schur, Lead
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was a German mathematician who studied geometry
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Democritus (Wikipedia)
Includes: Democritus, Mathematics section
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Democritus was also a pioneer of mathematics and geometry in particular.
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Campanus of Novara (Wikipedia)
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best known for his work on Euclid's Elements
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Paul Seidel (Wikipedia)
Includes: Paul Seidel, Awards, Veblen Prize
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Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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Autolycus of Pitane (Wikipedia)
Includes: Autolycus of Pitane, Lead, works
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both about spherical geometry
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Adelard of Bath (MacTutor)
Includes: Adelard of Bath, Biography, Euclid translations
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which were for centuries the chief geometry textbooks in the West
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Thales of Miletus (MacTutor)
Includes: Thales of Miletus, Summary
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He is credited with five theorems of elementary geometry.
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Erich Kähler (MacTutor)
Includes: Erich Kähler, Summary
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who worked in geometry and mathematical physics
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Kissing Number (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Kissing Number Problem, Lead sentence
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In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres (i.e., o
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Wikipedia: Torus
Includes: Torus, Lead sentence
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In geometry, a torus (pl.: tori or toruses) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space
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Dodecahedron (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, a dodecahedron or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces.
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Wikipedia: Icosahedron
Includes: Icosahedron, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Icosahedron, Lead sentence
In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces.
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Wikipedia: Tetrahedron
Includes: Tetrahedron, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Tetrahedron, Lead sentence
In geometry, a tetrahedron (pl.: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four
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Cube (Wikipedia)
Includes: Cube, Lead sentence
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A cube is a three-dimensional solid object in geometry.
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Octahedron (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, an octahedron (pl.: octahedra or octahedrons) is any polyhedron with eight faces.
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Wikipedia: Truncated icosahedron
Includes: Truncated Icosahedron, Lead sentence
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In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is a polyhedron that can be constructed by truncating all of the regular icosahedron's vert
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Rhombic dodecahedron (Wikipedia)
Includes: Rhombic Dodecahedron, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Rhombic Dodecahedron, Lead sentence
In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces.
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Icosidodecahedron (Wikipedia)
Includes: Icosidodecahedron, Lead sentence
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In geometry, an icosidodecahedron or pentagonal gyrobirotunda is a polyhedron with twenty (icosi-) triangular faces and twelve (do
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Miquel's theorem, Wikipedia
Includes: Miquel's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Miquel's Theorem, Lead sentence
Miquel's theorem is a result in geometry, named after Auguste Miquel, concerning the intersection of three circles, each drawn thr
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Brianchon's theorem, Wikipedia
Includes: Brianchon's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Brianchon's Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Brianchon's theorem is a theorem stating that when a hexagon is circumscribed around a conic section, its principal d
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Casey's theorem, Wikipedia
Includes: Casey's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Casey's Theorem, Lead sentence
he generalized Ptolemy's theorem, is a theorem in Euclidean geometry named after the Irish mathematician John Casey.
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Carnot's theorem (inradius, circumradius) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Carnot's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Carnot's Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean geometry, Carnot's theorem (English: kar-NOH, French: [kaʁno]) states that the sum of the signed distances from the c
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Simson line - Wikipedia
Includes: Simson Line Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Simson Line Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, given a triangle ABC and a point P on its circumcircle, the three closest points to P on lines AB, AC, and BC are col
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Monge's theorem, Wikipedia
Includes: Monge's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Monge's Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Monge's theorem, named after Gaspard Monge, states that for any three circles in a plane, none of which is completely
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British flag theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: British Flag Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: British Flag Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean geometry, the British flag theorem says that if a point P is chosen inside a rectangle ABCD then the sum of the squar
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Japanese theorem for cyclic polygons (Wikipedia)
Includes: Japanese Theorem for Cyclic Polygons, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Japanese Theorem for Cyclic Polygons, Lead sentence
In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that no matter how one triangulates a cyclic polygon, the sum of inradii of triangles is
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Brahmagupta theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Brahmagupta Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Brahmagupta Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Brahmagupta's theorem states that if a cyclic quadrilateral is orthodiagonal (that is, has diagonals that are perpend
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Euler's rotation theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Euler's Rotation Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Euler's Rotation Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Euler's rotation theorem states that, in three-dimensional space, any displacement of a rigid body such that a point
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Anne's theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Anne's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Anne's Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean geometry, Anne's theorem describes an equality of certain areas within a convex quadrilateral.
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Clifford's circle theorems (Wikipedia)
Includes: Clifford's Circle Theorems, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Clifford's Circle Theorems, Lead sentence
In geometry, Clifford's theorems, named after the English geometer William Kingdon Clifford, are a sequence of theorems relating t
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Conway circle theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Conway Circle Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Conway Circle Theorem, Lead sentence
In plane geometry, the Conway circle theorem states that when the sides meeting at each vertex of a triangle are extended by the l
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Crossbar theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Crossbar Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Crossbar Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the crossbar theorem states that if ray AD is between ray AC and ray AB, then ray AD intersects line segment BC.
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Equal incircles theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Equal Incircles Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Equal Incircles Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the equal incircles theorem derives from a Japanese Sangaku, and pertains to the following construction: a series of
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Five circles theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Five Circles Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Five Circles Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the five circles theorem states that, given five circles centered on a common sixth circle and intersecting each othe
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Geometric mean theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Geometric Mean Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Geometric Mean Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean geometry, the right triangle altitude theorem or geometric mean theorem is a relation between the altitude on the hyp
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Hinge theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Hinge Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Hinge Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the hinge theorem (sometimes called the open mouth theorem) states that if two sides of one triangle are congruent to
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Hjelmslev's theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Hjelmslev's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Hjelmslev's Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Hjelmslev's theorem, named after Johannes Hjelmslev, is the statement that if points P, Q, R...
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Inscribed angle (Wikipedia)
Includes: Inscribed Angle Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Inscribed Angle Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, an inscribed angle is the angle formed in the interior of a circle when two chords intersect on the circle.
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Intercept theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Intercept Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Intercept Theorem, Lead sentence
er theorem, is an important theorem in elementary geometry about the ratios of various line segments that are created if two rays
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Intersecting chords theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Intersecting Chords Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Intersecting Chords Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean geometry, the intersecting chords theorem, or just the chord theorem, is a statement that describes a relation of the
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Intersecting secants theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Intersecting Secants Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Intersecting Secants Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean geometry, the intersecting secants theorem or just secant theorem describes the relation of line segments created by
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Japanese theorem for cyclic quadrilaterals (Wikipedia)
Includes: Japanese Theorem for Cyclic Quadrilaterals, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Japanese Theorem for Cyclic Quadrilaterals, Lead sentence
In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that the centers of the incircles of certain triangles inside a cyclic quadrilateral are
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Pompeiu's theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Pompeiu's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Pompeiu's Theorem, Lead sentence
Pompeiu's theorem is a result of plane geometry, discovered by the Romanian mathematician Dimitrie Pompeiu.
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Six circles theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Six Circles Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Six Circles Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the six circles theorem relates to a chain of six circles together with a triangle, such that each circle is tangent
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Spiral of Theodorus (Wikipedia)
Includes: Spiral of Theodorus, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Spiral of Theodorus, Lead sentence
In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called the square root spiral, Pythagorean spiral, or Pythagoras's snail) is a spiral c
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Translation (Geometry) (Wikipedia)
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In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same
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Apeirogon (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, an apeirogon (from Ancient Greek ἄπειροv apeiron 'infinite, boundless' and γωνία gonia 'angle') or infinite polygon i
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Point at Infinity (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, a point at infinity or ideal point is an idealized limiting point at the "end" of each line.
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Point Reflection (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, a point reflection (also called a point inversion or central inversion) is a geometric transformation of affine space
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Shear Mapping (Wikipedia)
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In plane geometry, a shear mapping is an affine transformation that displaces each point in a fixed direction by an amount proport
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Spherinder (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Spherinder, Lead sentence
In four-dimensional geometry, the spherinder, or spherical cylinder or spherical prism, is a geometric object, defined as the Cart
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Angle of Parallelism (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Angle of Parallelism, Lead sentence
In hyperbolic geometry, angle of parallelism Π ( a ) is the angle at the non-right angle vertex of a right hyperbolic triangle hav
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Rectangle (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Rectangle, Lead sentence
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles.
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Taxicab Geometry (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Taxicab Geometry, Lead sentence
Taxicab geometry or Manhattan geometry is geometry where the familiar Euclidean distance is ignored, and the distance between two
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Square (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral.
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Isogonal Conjugate (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, the isogonal conjugate of a point P with respect to a triangle △ABC is constructed by reflecting the lines PA, PB, PC
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Dehn Invariant (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, the Dehn invariant is a value used to determine whether one polyhedron can be cut into pieces and reassembled ("disse
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Neusis construction (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, the neusis (νεῦσις; from Ancient Greek νεύειν (neuein) 'incline towards'; plural: νεύσεις, neuseis) is a geometric co
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Hyperboloid model (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, the hyperboloid model, also known as the Minkowski model after Hermann Minkowski, is a model of n-dimensional hyperbo
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Ideal Point (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Ideal Point, Lead sentence
In hyperbolic geometry, an ideal point, omega point or point at infinity is a well-defined point outside the hyperbolic plane or s
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Steiner-Lehmus theorem, Wikipedia
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Petersen-Morley theorem (Wikipedia)
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Finsler-Hadwiger theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Finsler-Hadwiger Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Finsler-Hadwiger Theorem, Lead sentence
adwiger theorem is a statement in Euclidean plane geometry that describes a third square derived from any two squares that share a
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Saccheri-Legendre theorem (Wikipedia)
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Inscribed Square Problem (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Inscribed Square Problem, Lead sentence
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e Toeplitz conjecture, is an unsolved question in geometry: Does every plane simple closed curve contain all four vertices of some
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Tammes Problem, Wikipedia
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Quote, Includes: Tammes Problem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the Tammes problem is a problem in packing a given number of points on the surface of a sphere such that the minimum
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Wikipedia: Hypercube
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In geometry, a hypercube is an n-dimensional analogue of a square (n = 2) and a cube (n = 3); the special case for n = 4 is known
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Convex hull, Wikipedia
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In geometry, the convex hull, convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it.
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Wikipedia: Great dodecahedron
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Wikipedia: Boy's surface
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In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in three-dimensional space.
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Wikipedia: Small stellated dodecahedron
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Wikipedia: Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron
  • Includes: Great Icosahedron, Lead sentence
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Van Aubel's theorem (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Van Aubel's Theorem, Lead sentence
In plane geometry, Van Aubel's theorem describes a relationship between squares constructed on the sides of a quadrilateral.
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Routh's theorem - Wikipedia
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Quote, Includes: Routh's Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Routh's theorem determines the ratio of areas between a given triangle and a triangle formed by the pairwise intersec
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Erdos-Mordell inequality, Wikipedia
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Pitot theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Pitot Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Pitot Theorem, Lead sentence
The Pitot theorem in geometry states that in a tangential quadrilateral the two pairs of opposite sides have the same total length
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Radon's theorem (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Radon's Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Radon's theorem on convex sets, published by Johann Radon in 1921, states that:Any set of d + 2 points in Rd can be p
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Beckman Quarles theorem (Wikipedia)
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Heron's formula (Wikipedia)
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Cauchy's theorem (geometry) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Cauchy's Rigidity Theorem (Convex Polyhedra), Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Cauchy's Rigidity Theorem (Convex Polyhedra), Lead sentence
Cauchy's theorem is a theorem in geometry, named after Augustin Cauchy.
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Non-squeezing theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Gromov's Non-Squeezing Theorem, Lead sentence
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one of the most important theorems in symplectic geometry.
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De Bruijn-Erdos theorem (incidence geometry) (Wikipedia)
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Art gallery problem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Art Gallery Problem, Lead sentence
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well-studied visibility problem in computational geometry.
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Angle Bisector Theorem (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Angle Bisector Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Angle Bisector Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, the angle bisector theorem is concerned with the relative lengths of the two segments that a triangle's side is divid
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Bretschneider's formula, Wikipedia
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Quote, Includes: Bretschneider's Formula, Lead sentence
In geometry, Bretschneider's formula is a mathematical expression for the area of a general quadrilateral.
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Barbier's theorem (Wikipedia)
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Lester's theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Lester's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Lester's Theorem, Lead sentence
In Euclidean plane geometry, Lester's theorem states that in any scalene triangle, the two Fermat points, the nine-point center, a
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Mohr-Mascheroni theorem (Wikipedia)
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Pasch's theorem (Wikipedia)
Includes: Pasch's Theorem, Lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Pasch's Theorem, Lead sentence
In geometry, Pasch's theorem, stated in 1882 by the German mathematician Moritz Pasch, is a result in plane geometry which cannot
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Poncelet-Steiner theorem (Wikipedia)
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Delaunay Triangulation (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Delaunay Triangulation, Lead sentence
In computational geometry, a Delaunay triangulation or Delone triangulation of a set of points in the plane subdivides their conve
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Abraham Wald (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Includes: Abraham Wald, Lead paragraph [in-branch 2]
geometry
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Wikipedia: Olinde Rodrigues
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Quote, Includes: Olinde Rodrigues, Lead
In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors
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Wikipedia: Jakob Steiner
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Quote, Includes: Jakob Steiner, Lead
a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry
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Wikipedia: Joseph Wolstenholme
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Quote, Includes: Joseph Wolstenholme, Lead
a Treatise on Solid Geometry was published in 1863
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Wikipedia: Karl von Staudt
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used synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic
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Wikipedia: Joseph-Émile Barbier
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known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width
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Wikipedia: August Ferdinand Möbius
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Möbius was the first to introduce homogeneous coordinates into projective geometry.
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Wikipedia: Blaise Pascal
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His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16.
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Wikipedia: Georg Alexander Pick
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Quote, Includes: Georg Alexander Pick, Lead
Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons.
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Wikipedia: Carl Anton Bretschneider
Includes: Carl Anton Bretschneider, Lead
Quote, Includes: Carl Anton Bretschneider, Lead
Bretschneider worked in geometry, number theory, and history of geometry.
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Wikipedia: Helge von Koch
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Quote, Includes: Helge von Koch, Lead
Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɛ̂lɡe fɔ̌nː ˈkɔ̌kː]; 25 January 1870-11 March 1924) was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described.
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Wikipedia: Pierre Wantzel
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Pierre Laurent Wantzel (5 June 1814-21 May 1848) was a French mathematician who proved that several ancient geometric problems were impossible to solve using only compass and straightedge.
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Wikipedia: Giovanni Ceva
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Giovanni Ceva (September 1, 1647, May 13, 1734) was an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry.
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Wikipedia: Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)
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Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhail Gromov, Michael Gromov or Misha Gromov; Russian: Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943) is a Russian-French mathematician known for his work in geometry, analysis and group theory.
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Wikipedia: Frank Morley
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Frank Morley (September 9, 1860, October 17, 1937) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry.
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Wikipedia: Heinz Hopf
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Heinz Hopf (19 November 1894-3 June 1971) was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry. == Early life and education == Hopf was born in Gräbschen, German Empire (now Grabiszyn, part of Wrocław, Poland), the son of Elizabeth (née Kirchner) and Wilh
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Wikipedia: Jean Gaston Darboux
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Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see, for example, linear PDEs).
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Wikipedia: Hero of Alexandria
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In mathematics, he wrote a commentary on Euclid's Elements and a work on applied geometry known as the Metrica.
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Wikipedia: Max Dehn
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Max Wilhelm Dehn (November 13, 1878, June 27, 1952) was a German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory.
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Kalai's 3^d Conjecture, Wikipedia
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In geometry, more specifically in polytope theory, Kalai's 3d conjecture is a conjecture on the polyhedral combinatorics of centrally symmetric polytopes, made by Gil Kalai in 1989.
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Wikipedia: Real projective plane
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It is the setting for planar projective geometry, in which the relationships between objects are not considered to change under projective transformations.
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Geometric Shape
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In geometry, shape excludes information about the object's position, size, orientation and chirality.
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Geometric Transformation (Wikipedia)
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The study of geometry may be approached by the study of these transformations, such as in transformation geometry.
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Exterior angle theorem (Wikipedia)
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This is a fundamental result in absolute geometry because its proof does not depend upon the parallel postulate.
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Pappus, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Pappus is the last of the great Greek geometers
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Gino Fano (1871-1952), Biography, MacTutor History of Mathematics
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whose work was mainly on projective and algebraic geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Reuleaux Triangle
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Cuboctahedron
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Geometry Solid Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Viviani's Theorem
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Euler Brick
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Geometry Solid Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Commandino's Theorem
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Geometry Line Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Perspective
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Geometry Projective Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Line (Geometry)
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Geometry Line Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Eccentricity
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Geometry Curves
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Wolfram MathWorld: Isometry
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Geometry Transformations
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Wolfram MathWorld: Reflection
Wolfram MathWorldIncludes: Reflection (mathematics), Subject classifications
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Geometry Transformations
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Wolfram MathWorld: Transformation
Wolfram MathWorldIncludes: Transformation (Function), Subject classifications
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Geometry Transformations
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Wolfram MathWorld: Orthographic Projection
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Geometry Projective Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Disk
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Euclidean Distance
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Geometry Coordinate Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Distance
Wolfram MathWorldIncludes: Distance (Graph Theory), Subject classifications
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Geometry Distance
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Wolfram MathWorld: Abscissa
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Geometry Coordinate Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Cone
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Geometry Solid Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Origin
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Geometry Coordinate Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Squircle
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Orthocenter
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Rodrigues' Rotation Formula
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Geometry Transformations
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Wolfram MathWorld: Voronoi Diagram
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Geometry Computational Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: K3 Surface
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Geometry Surfaces
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Wolfram MathWorld: Pythagorean Triple
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Hausdorff Distance
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Geometry Distance
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Wolfram MathWorld: Schwarz Lantern
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Geometry Solid Geometry
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Wolfram MathWorld: Erdős-Anning Theorem
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Geometry Points
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Rigid Transformation (Wikipedia)
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Euclidean transformation or Euclidean isometry) is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves
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Wikipedia: Sierpinski carpet
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The Sierpiński carpet is a plane fractal first described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916.
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Wikipedia: Menger sponge
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universal curve, Sierpiński cube, or Sierpiński sponge) is a fractal curve. It is a three-dimensional generalization of
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Wikipedia: Koch snowflake
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(also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been
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Wikipedia: Apollonian gasket
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gasket, Apollonian net, or Apollonian circle packing is a fractal generated by starting with a triple of circles, each tangent to the other two, and successively
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Gilbert-Pollak conjecture (Wikipedia)
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is an unproven conjecture on the ratio of lengths of Steiner trees and Euclidean minimum spanning trees for the
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Penrose Tiling (Wikipedia)
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A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem (Wikipedia)
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem is an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem
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Crystallographic Restriction Theorem (Wikipedia)
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restriction theorem characterizes the possible orders of rotational symmetry in a lattice. In 2 or 3 dimensions, the rotational symmetries
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Euler's quadrilateral theorem (Wikipedia)
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Euler's quadrilateral theorem or Euler's law on quadrilaterals, named after Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), describes
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Theorem of the gnomon (Wikipedia)
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The theorem of the gnomon states that certain parallelograms occurring in a gnomon have areas of equal si
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Wolfram MathWorld: Shoelace Formula -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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Geometry Plane Geometry
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George Szekeres, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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George Szekeres was a Hungarian-born mathematician who worked for most of his life in Australia on geometry and combinatorics.
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Menelaus of Alexandria, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Menelaus was one of the later Greek geometers who applied spherical geometry to astronomy. He is best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem.
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Moritz Pasch, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Moritz Pasch was a German mathematician who worked on the foundations of geometry. He found a number of assumptions in Euclid that nobody had noticed before.
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Piero della Francesca, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist who pioneered the use of perspective in Renaissance art and went on to write several mathematical treatises.
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Reinhold Baer, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Reinhold Baer 's mathematical work was wide ranging; topology, abelian groups and geometry. His most important work, however, was in group theory, on the extension problem for groups, finiteness conditions, soluble and nilpotent groups.
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Stefan Cohn-Vossen, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, born in what is now Poland, who is known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on a geometry book.
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Tobias Mayer, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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During his time in Göttingen, he lectured on mathematics, mechanics and optics, and introduced projective methods into astronomy and geography.
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Wilhelm Blaschke, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Wilhelm Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician whose research was on various aspects of geometry. He also initiated the study of topological differential geometry.
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Ibn al-Haytham, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Al-Haytham is also known as Alhazen . He was an Islamic mathematician who wrote early works on optics as well as geometry and number theory.
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Robert Simson, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Robert Simson was a Scottish mathematician best known for the Simson line of a triangle, even though he was not the first discoverer of it.
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Benoît Mandelbrot, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in Fractal Geometry. He showed how Fractals can occur in many different places in both Mathematics and elsewhere in Nature.
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Lazare Carnot, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Lazare Carnot is best known as a geometer. In 1803 he published Géométrie de position in which sensed magnitudes were first systematically used in geometry.
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