Geometer Definition

Geometer Sentence Examples

• 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."

• He wrote to the great geometer a letter on the principles of mechanics, which evoked an immediate and enthusiastic response.

• Dinostratus, a Greek geometer and disciple of Plato, discussed the curve, and showed how it effected a mechanical solution of squaring the circle.

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

• His treatise on Conics gained him the title of The Great Geometer, and is that by which his fame has been transmitted to modern times.