geometer's Usage Examples:

The harmony between arithmetical and geometrical measurement, which was disturbed by the Greek geometers on the discovery of irrational numbers, is restored by an unlimited supply of the causes of disturbance.

Having determined the difference of latitude between Alexandria and Syene which he erroneously believed to lie on the same meridian, and obtained the distance of those places from each other from the surveys made by Egyptian geometers, he concluded that a degree of the meridan measured 700 stadia.

32 was first proved in a general way by the Pythagoreans; but, on the other hand, we learn from Geminus that the ancient geometers observed the equality to two right angles in each kind of triangle - in the equilateral first, then in the isosceles, and lastly in the scalene (Apoll.

The third volume includes, however, some theological treatises, and the first part of it is occupied with editions of treatises on harmonics and other works of Greek geometers, some of them first editions from the MSS.

Simson's contributions to mathematical knowledge took the form of critical editions and commentaries on the works of the ancient geometers.

PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA, Greek geometer, flourished about the end of the 3rd century A.

de Maupertuis as associate geometer of the Academie des Sciences.

The invention of the conic sections is to be assigned to the school of geometers founded by Plato at Athens about the 4th century B.

As a geometer he is classed by Eudemus, the greatest ancient authority, among those who "have enriched the science with original theorems, and given it a really sound arrangement.

9), and it is plain that the geometers older than the Pythagoreans can be no other than Thales and his school.

It harmonizes with the concrete visualizing turn of his mind that, to quote Professor Henry Smith, "Clifford was above all and before all a geometer.

'The ancient Egyptians were famed as " geometers," and as early as the days of Rameses II.

"The lectures attracted hearers so eminent as Humboldt the cosmologist, Poinsot the geometer and Blainville the physiologist.

Synonyms:

geometrician, mathematician,

Antonyms:

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