16 events with tag "geometry"
300 BC
ID: 309
Euclid writes Elements in Alexandria - most influential textbook ever, geometric proofs, 'no royal road'
ID: 309
300 BC
ID: 361
Euclid's Elements establishes the axiomatic method of mathematical proof, demonstrating systematic deduction from axioms and definitions
ID: 361
1596
ID: 3519
Kepler's 'Mysterium Cosmographicum' - 'Geometry existed before the Creation' - Universe as mathematical puzzle - God as geometer not Father - Quality replaced by quantity
ID: 3519
1748
ID: 529
Leonhard Euler develops theory of polyhedra and Euler's formula V - E + F = 2
ID: 529
1777
ID: 596
Comte de Buffon poses Buffon's needle problem - first geometric probability connecting Ο to random processes
ID: 596
1794
ID: 432
Gaspard Monge develops descriptive geometry, connecting geometric and combinatorial ideas
ID: 432
1834
ID: 801
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi develops systematic theory of determinants for linear algebra
ID: 801
1854
ID: 899
Riemann lectures On Hypotheses Which Lie at Foundations of Geometry - challenges space assumptions
ID: 899
1858
ID: 914
August Mobius discovers Mobius strip - challenges intuitive concepts of geometry
ID: 914
1872
ID: 985
Felix Klein publishes Erlangen Program defining geometry through group theory
ID: 985
1899
ID: 390
David Hilbert publishes 'Grundlagen der Geometrie', axiomatizing geometry and emphasizing formal axiomatic method
ID: 390
1963
ID: 4576
Grothendieck develops topos theory - unifies geometry and logic
ID: 4576
1975
ID: 1939
Benoit Mandelbrot publishes work on fractals - 'Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones'
ID: 1939
1997
ID: 4535
Daina Taimina crochets first physical models of hyperbolic geometry - exponential growth in stitches
ID: 4535
1998
ID: 4503
Thomas Hales announces computer-assisted proof of Kepler conjecture
ID: 4503
2003
ID: 3094
Grisha Perelman develops Ricci flow techniques for topology - revolutionizes geometric topology
ID: 3094