noun
definition
A mathematician who specializes in geometry.
definition
Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).
Examples of geometer in a Sentence
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.
It harmonizes with the concrete visualizing turn of his mind that, to quote Professor Henry Smith, "Clifford was above all and before all a geometer."
Claude Mydorge (1585-1647), a French geometer and friend of Descartes, published a work De sectionibus conicis in which he greatly simplified the cumbrous proofs of Apollonius, whose method of treatment he followed.