Jeffrey B.
Pepito BSEd-Math 3A
Subject: Modern Geometry
Mathematicians and their contribution in Geometry
Mathematicians
Euclid (325 BC- 265 BCE)
David Hilbert (1862- 1943)
Girolamo Saccheri (1667–1733)
Thales of Miletus (6th-5th BCE)
Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
Democritus (460-370 BCE)
Archimedes (287-212 BCE)
Apollonius of Perga (262-190 BCE)
Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria (10-70 CE)
Ibn al-Haytham (966-1059 CE)
Girard Desargues (1591-1661)
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Contribution to Geometry
Treatise on geometry, the Elements.
Reduced geometry to a series of axioms
and contributed substantially to the
establishment of the formalistic foundations
of mathematics.
Considered a certain type of quadrilateral,
called a Saccheri quadrilateral
Thales Theorem, early developments in
geometry, including work on similar and
right triangles
Expansion of geometry, rigorous approach
building from first principles, square and
triangular numbers, Pythagoras’ theorem
Developments in geometry and fractions,
volume of a cone
Formulas for areas of regular shapes,
“method of exhaustion” for approximating
areas and value of π.
Work on geometry, especially on cones and
conic sections (ellipse, parabola, hyperbola).
Heron’s Formula for finding the area of a
triangle from its side lengths, Heron’s
Method for iteratively computing a square
root.
Derived a formula for the sum of fourth
powers using a readily generalizable
method, “Alhazen’s problem”, established
beginnings of link between algebra and
geometry
Early development of projective geometry
and “point at infinity”, perspective theorem
 René Descartes (1596-1650)
Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754)
Gaspard Monge (1746-1818)
Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856)
János Bolyai (1802-1860)
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
Marius Sophus Lie (1842-1899)
Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014)
John Nash (1928-2015)
Grigori Perelman (1966)
Brahmagupta (600AD)
Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662)
Development of Cartesian coordinates and
analytic geometry (synthesis of geometry
and algebra)
De Moivre’s formula, development of
analytic geometry
Inventor of descriptive geometry,
orthographic projection
Developed theory of hyperbolic geometry
and curved spaces independendly of Bolyai
Explored hyperbolic geometry and curved
spaces
Non-Euclidean elliptic geometry, Riemann
surfaces, Riemannian geometry (differential
geometry in multiple dimensions)
Applied algebra to geometric theory of
differential equations, continuous symmetry,
Lie groups of transformations
Geometry of numbers (geometrical method
in multi-dimensional space for solving
number theory problems), Minkowski space-
time
revolutionary advances in algebraic
geometry
Works on differential geometry and partial
differential equations
Finally proved Poincaré Conjecture (by
proving Thurston’s geometrization
conjecture), contributions to Riemannian
geometry and geometric topology
concept relating to the calculations
regarding quadrilaterals (four-sided
geometric shapes) enclosed in a circle.
Significant work in geometry now known as
Pascal’s Theorem