Euclid was a renown geometer. From LearnThat.org.
Greek geometer, and that Hamilton invented quaternions. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Mrs. Somerville dined with this great geometer in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
Consider for instance the case of Brumfiel, a real algebraic geometer. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference
After all, the geometer does not need to offer multiple proofs of his theorem. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic] Reference
But the geometer treats him neither qua man nor qua indivisible, but as a solid. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
The space of painting is no abstract aspect of things such as the geometer elaborates. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Synthesis, on the other hand, reverses the process: the geometer starts with what is known. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Warning: the following may be humor that “only a computational geometer can appreciate”. From Wordnik.com. [Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Even math-phobes have the name of that ancient Greek geometer filed away in their consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [All Hail the Hypotenuse] Reference
Apollonius of Perga was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
For more on hyperbolic space, check out this interview with Taimina and geometer David Henderson. From Wordnik.com. [Daina Taimina’s Hyperbolic Planes] Reference
The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis, and disdain the results of observation. From Wordnik.com. [Nature] Reference
And in the same way the geometer does not consider the attributes which attach thus to figures, nor whether. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
There she met Emmy Noether, the preeminent woman mathematician of the century, and Princeton geometer Oswald Veblen. From Wordnik.com. [Olga Taussky-Todd.] Reference
And chanting she turned, the bronze ferule tracing a circle on the stone precisely as a geometer could have graven with a compass. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
To a man like Monte-Leone nothing was lost, and like a skilful geometer, he knew how to take advantage of the errors of his adversary. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The history of ethical theory appears to make it clear that the "given" of the moralist is not of the same nature as that of the geometer. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
To see this he must invent additional lines; and the geometer must often draw such to get at the essential properties he may require in a figure. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Ptolemy Lagus, flourished Euclid, the great geometer, whose work forms the basis of the science of geometry as taught in our schools at the present time. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
This is actually the case, and I hope to be able to convince my readers that it is no fanciful theory, but may be demonstrated as clearly as the problems of the geometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
Hippocrates of Chios is mentioned by Aristotle as an instance to prove that a man may be a distinguished geometer and, at the same time, a fool in the ordinary affairs of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
This circumstance will not embarrass the geometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
In him the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
TVOntario has produced a very fine documentary based on the life of geometer. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Physical Science] Reference
The geometer takes any set of axioms that seem interesting, and deduces their consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
A born geometer, he was naturally sent to Göttingen and placed under the tuition of Gauss. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
He is more than an expert, or a school-man, or a geometer, or the prophet of a peculiar message. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Maupertuis was the hero of a day, and Helvétius accordingly applied himself to become a geometer. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference
According to this octavo geometer and quarto gentleman, a diameter of 81 gives a circumference of 256. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
Dante compares himself, when bewildered, to a geometer who cannot find the principle on which the circle is to be measured. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Thus the geometer leaves to the man of science to decide, as best he may, what axioms are most nearly true in the actual world. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
(M868) The time gained by this eminent engineer, as well as geometer, enabled the Carthaginians to send an army to relieve Syracuse. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
The uniformity of movement, upon the probabilities connected with which the French geometer mainly based his scheme, thus at once vanishes. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
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