Geometry Important Historical People

• Apollonius of Perga (ca. 262 BC-190BC)  - Author of Conics, which introduced terms such as parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.
• Desargues, Girard (1591-1661)  - Article by J.V. Field.
• Heron of Alexandria (ca. 75 AD)  - From Eric W. Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
• Klein, Felix (1849-1925)  - Feature on German mathematician who began his career as Plcker's assistant at Bonn.
• Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818)  - Article by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.
• Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866)  - Includes biography, fields of study, and major contributions to geometry.
• Steiner, Jakob (1796-1863)  - Major contributor to projective geometry. Discovered the Steiner surface which has a double infinity of conic sections on it.