Bits of it were developed by different people in different places, and sometimes in parallel. For example, Pythagoras came up with a theorum of the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle: a² = b² + c². If the longest side is 5cm in length and another side is 4cm, then the third side can only be 3cm. This is because 25 = 16 + 9. He's said to have figured this out by thinking about a triangular musical instrument, and the theory has his name on it.
However, earlier, priests in India had already developed the same thing. They had funny rules for laying out their altars. These were representations of birds, and they absolutely had to be made using triangles. These triangles had to be assembled in accordance with obscure regulations, and it was sometimes necessary to understand this Pythagoras bloke's theorum despite the detail he hadn't yet been born.
There are loads of examples of that sort of thing. Nevertheless, the ancient Greek scholars certainly brought all the strands into a more coherent geometry than anybody else had previously managed, and deserve the credit for that.
2007-12-27 02:05:31
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answered by KTDykes 7
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The earliest record beginnings are found in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Indus Valley around 3000B.C. Euclid wrote textbooks on Geometry ranging from introduction to the basics to more advanced books. Since it is one of the oldest studies in Humanity's History, there is no one inventor, although Euclid is thought of as the Father of Geometry because of his contripbutions to the science. Also men such as Rene Descrtes, Pierre de Fermat, Girard Desargues, Lovachesvsky, Bolyai and Gauss were some of the forward minds that aided Geometry's developement.
2007-12-27 01:27:50
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answered by Anonymous
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Most texts credit the Greek Euclid, but the
Egyptians were using princples of geometry
to re-establish land boundaries after the seasonal
Nile floods before he published.
2007-12-27 09:52:48
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answered by Irv S 7
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Exact date I'm not sure...but Euclid is the father of geometry.
2007-12-27 01:19:05
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answered by bradxschuman 6
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