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Steiner, Jakob (1796-1863) (Popularity:  )
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Steiner.html
Was one of the greatest contributors to projective geometry.
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Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866) (Popularity: )
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Riemann.html
Theory of functions, non-Euclidian geometry, relativity theory, Famous for the Riemann hypothesis about the behavior of zeros of the Riemann ...
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Desargues - Girard Desargues (1591-1661) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Desargues.html
Founder of projective geometry, his work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.
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Heron of Alexandria (ca. 75 AD) (Popularity: )
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Heron.html
Greek mathematician who was mainly interested in practical studies in mechanics and engineering, best known for Heron's Formula
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Klein, Felix (1849-1925) (Popularity: )
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/KleinFelix.html
Plücker's assistant at Bonn who studied Analytic Geometry, describing geometry as the study of properties of figures which remain invariant ...
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Monge, Gaspard - Conte de Péluse (1746-1818) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Monge.html
The father of differential geometry, he devised a system called Geometrie descriptive, now known as orthographic projection, the graphical method ...
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Euclid's Elements - Joyce's Java version (Popularity: )
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
This dynamically illustrated edition of Euclid's Elements includes 13 books on plane geometry, geometric and abstract algebra, number theory, incommensurables, ...
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Byrne's Edition of Euclid (Popularity: )
http://sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/byrne.html
Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid with colours used instead of labels. A beautiful piece of artwork.
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Euclid Elements - the Perseus Project (Popularity: )
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=euc.+toc
Pages giving the full Heath text of Euclid's Elements, together with the Greek text.
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Introduction to the Works of Euclid (Popularity: )
http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/euclid.html
With an Emphasis on the Elements. By Donald Lancon, Jr. (student).
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Euclid's Elements (Popularity: )
http://www.dform.com/projects/euclid/home.html
Welcome to the Platonic Solids as Demonstrated in Book Thirteen of Euclid's Elements.
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Euclid Forum Frigate (Popularity: )
http://jollyroger.com/zz/yna3d/Euclidhall/shakespeare1.html
Discussion forum and live chat devoted to Euclid's life and works.
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Introduction to the Works of Euclid (Popularity: )
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/euclid/euclid.html
An essay on the Elements (by Don Allen).
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Euclid in Verse (Popularity: )
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/ascii_files/geometry_poem_letter.html
A proof of one of Euclid's theorems in verse, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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The Visual Elements of Euclid (Popularity: )
http://www.visual-euclid.org/
New edition of the text of Heath, transformed into an extensively illustrated edition.
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Dunfield, Nathan (Popularity: )
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dunfield/
Caltech. 3-dimensional topology, geometry, and related topics.
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Apollonius of Perga (c. 262-190 B.C.) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Apollonius.html
known as 'The Great Geometer', great influence on the development of mathematics, famous book Conics introduced terms such as parabola, ...
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Banchoff, Tom (Popularity: )
http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/
Brown University. Geometry, visualisation; Popularisation.
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Bestvina, Mladen (Popularity: )
http://www.math.utah.edu/~bestvina/
Geometric group theory. Includes a problem list.
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Calegari, Danny (Popularity: )
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dannyc/
Specializes in topology and classical geometry. Department of mathematics. California Institute of Technology.
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