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212
Archimedes of Syracuse
On the Sphere and the Cylinder in which he determined the volumes and surface areas of spheres and cylinders. -
265
Euclid
"The Father of Geometry". Wrote the Elements. -
340
Papus of Alexandria
States his hexagon theorem and his centroid theorem. -
347
Plato
His work led to using tools to trisect an angle, to construct a cube twice the volume of a given cube, and to construct a square equal in area to a given circle. -
410
Hippocrates of Chios
showed that the ratio of the areas of two circles was equal to the ratio of the squares of their radii. -
475
Pythagoras
Pythagoras formed a brotherhood. Pythagorean Theorem- The theory states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. -
547
Thales
Thales brought the science of geometry from Egypt to Greece. Thales studied simliar triangles. Calculated the height of pyramids. -
Gerard Desargues
Represented the groundwork for projective geoemetry. This deals with the properites of figures. -
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Rene Descartes
Combined algebra and geometry to create analytical geometry. -
Gaspard Monge
Represented geometric figures on planes and determining distances, angles, and lines of intersection by geometric means. -
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Invented non-Euclidian geometry. -
Hipparchus of Rhodes
Credited with introducting the division of a circle into 360 degrees into Greek mathematics.