How To Use Geometer In A Sentence
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The larva of geometer moths, the familiar inchworms, feed on mulberry leaves.
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He gives the first a wrong date: he assures the world that there is no question about Scaliger's quadrature being wrong, in the eyes of geometers at least: and he states that Clavius mortified him {112} extremely by showing that it made the circle less than its inscribed dodecagon, which is, of course, equivalent to asserting that a straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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That is, the pre-Euclidean, Classical Greek geometers, typified by the Pythagoreans, and the School of Plato.
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In addition for the strict finitist geometer, success or failure is not solely determined by internal mathematical arguments or considerations.
Finitism in Geometry
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Little is known of the life history of the larvae of geometer moths.
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I stressed in my talks with her the role Stony Brook played, yet she focusses on the （single） talk Grisha gave at Princeton, listing a collection of eminent mathematicians, none of whom is a geometer/topologist.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Ancient Greek geometers knew that the number of solids that can be constructed from regular geometric figures is limited to five.
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Apollonius of Perga was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The issue of how to help students get started learning algebraic geometry is a question that almost every practicing algebraic geometer would answer differently.
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He was one of the most penetrating geometers of our age: his discoveries in geometry place him in the first rank among the successors of Chasles and Poncelet.
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The Poincaré Conjecture remained unsolved during the entire twentieth century and defeated the efforts of many of the best topologists and geometers of the time.
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Halley suggested to him that he might devote his considerable talents to the restoration of the work of the early Greek geometers, such as Euclid and Apollonius of Perga.
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He formed his own group of young geometers and together they wrote teaching texts, as well as the 4 volumes of a differential geometry text, later translated in German and French.
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A certain Chever also performed sundry singular mathematical feats, such as squaring the circle, a problem which he reduced to the single question, _Construere mundum divinae menti analogum_, and showing that the parabola, the only conic section squared by ancient or modern geometers, could never be quadrated, to the eternal discomfiture and discredit of the shade of Archimedes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
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The upshot of the controversy is that the pure geometers reasserted their role in mathematics.
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Our greatest debt to Lefschetz lies in the fact that he showed us that a study of topology was essential for all algebraic geometers.
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Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes.
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The body of geometer moths is thin and more fragile looking than in other macromoths.
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Most of the geometer moths captured were in floral lure traps, while both species of Plusiinae were trapped exclusively in floral lure traps.
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When he produced his first few results on 4-manifolds, the ideas were so new and foreign to geometers and topologists that they merely gazed in bewildered admiration.
