User:Tomruen/people and polytopes
Included are all referenced mathematicians in polyhedron related articles, including references for nonexistent articles! (Mostly sorted by data of birth)
- http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Paris&CONTEXT=1
- Template:MacTutor Biography example - O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Tomruen/people and polytopes", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
Ancient
[edit]| Name | Birth | Claim to fame Polyhedra |
|---|---|---|
| Pythagoras | 580 BC | |
| Plato | 427 BC | Platonic solids |
| Theaetetus (mathematician) | 417 BC | Proved only 5 regular polyhedra |
| Euclid | 325 BC | Father of geometry |
| Archimedes | 287 BC | Archimedean solids |
Premodern
[edit]| Name | Birth-death | Claim to fame Polyhedra |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Bradwardine | 1290 | |
| Paolo Uccello | 1397 | Discovered small stellated dodecahedron |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 452 | Drawings of Rhombicuboctahedron |
| Wenzel Jamnitzer | 1507 | Discover great stellated dodecahedron |
| Johannes Kepler | 1571 | Kepler-poinsot solid |
| René Descartes | 1596 | Cartesian coordinate system |
| Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri | 1667 | Non-Euclidean geometry |
| Leonhard Euler | 1707-1783 | Euler characteristic |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 1777-1855 | Non-Euclidean geometry |
| Louis Poinsot | 1777-1859 | Kepler-poinsot solid |
| Augustin Louis Cauchy | 1789-1857 | |
| Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet | 1805-1859 | Dirichlet tessellation |
| Eugène Charles Catalan | 1814-1894 | catalan solid |
| Ludwig Schläfli | 1814-1895 | Study of the linear geometry of n-dimensional space |
| Joseph Louis François Bertrand | 1822-1900 | regular star polyhedra |
| Bernhard Riemann | 1826-1866 | Elliptic geometry |
| Eugenio Beltrami | 1835-1900 | Hyperbolic geometry |
Modern - death
[edit]| Name | Birth | Claim to fame Polyhedra |
|---|---|---|
| Edwin Abbott Abbott | 1838-1926 | Author 1884 Flatland |
| Pieter Hendrik Schoute | 1846-1923 | Worked on polytopes together with Alicia Boole Stott |
| Arthur Moritz Schönflies | 1853-1928 | Symmetry |
| Henri Poincaré | 1954-1912 | Hyperbolic geometry |
| Alicia Boole Stott | 1860-1940 | Coined term polytope |
| Willem Abraham Wythoff W. A. Wythoff |
1865-1939 | Wythoff construction, Studied semi-regular polytopes |
| Alfredo Andreini | Andreini tessellation | |
| Thorold Gosset | 1869-1962 | Completely enumerated the convex uniform polytopes with regular facets in 1900 |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | |
| M.C. Escher | 1898-1972 | Artist |
| Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter | 1907-2003 | Uniform polyhedra, Phil. Trans. 246 A (1954) |
Living
[edit]| Name | Birth | Claim to fame Polyhedra |
|---|---|---|
| M.S. Longuet-Higgins | ||
| Magnus Wenninger | 1919 | List of Wenninger polyhedron models |
| Victor Zalgaller | 1920 | |
| Eugene Dynkin | 1924 | Root_system#Dynkin_diagrams |
| J.C.P. Miller | Rules of Stellation | |
| Ian Stewart (mathematician) | 1945 | Author 2001 Flatterland |
| Neil Sloane | ~1945 | |
| Rudy Rucker | 1946 | Author The Fourth Dimension (book) |
| John Skilling | The complete set of uniform polyhedra, Phil. Trans. 278 A (1975) | |
| Norman Johnson | Johnson solid, uniform polychoron | |
| John Horton Conway | convex uniform polychoron | |
| Michael J. T. Guy | ~1940 | Discoverer Grand antiprism |
| George Olshevsky | Uniform Polychora Project, [1] | |
| Branko Grünbaum | ~1940 | [2] |
| George W. Hart | Geometric Sculptor, [3] | |
| Jim McNeill | Software Hedron [4] | |
| Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician) | KaleidoTile software, [5] | |
| Wendy Krieger | [6] | |
| Don Hatch | Hyperbolic tiling applet, [7] | |
| Robert Webb | Great Stella software, [8] | |
| Alex Doskey | 1968 | Toroids, [9] |
| Jonathan Bowers | 1969 | Uniform Polychora Project, [10] |
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