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Included are all referenced mathematicians in polyhedron related articles, including references for nonexistent articles! (Mostly sorted by data of birth)

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Ancient

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Name Birth Claim to fame
Polyhedra
Pythagoras 580 BC
Plato 427 BC Platonic solids
Theaetetus (mathematician) 417 BC Proved only 5 regular polyhedra
Euclid 325 BC Father of geometry
Archimedes 287 BC Archimedean solids

Premodern

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Name Birth-death Claim to fame
Polyhedra
Thomas Bradwardine 1290
Paolo Uccello 1397 Discovered small stellated dodecahedron
Leonardo da Vinci 452 Drawings of Rhombicuboctahedron
Wenzel Jamnitzer 1507 Discover great stellated dodecahedron
Johannes Kepler 1571 Kepler-poinsot solid
René Descartes 1596 Cartesian coordinate system
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri 1667 Non-Euclidean geometry
Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 Euler characteristic
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855 Non-Euclidean geometry
Louis Poinsot 1777-1859 Kepler-poinsot solid
Augustin Louis Cauchy 1789-1857
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet 1805-1859 Dirichlet tessellation
Eugène Charles Catalan 1814-1894 catalan solid
Ludwig Schläfli 1814-1895 Study of the linear geometry of n-dimensional space
Joseph Louis François Bertrand 1822-1900 regular star polyhedra
Bernhard Riemann 1826-1866 Elliptic geometry
Eugenio Beltrami 1835-1900 Hyperbolic geometry

Modern - death

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Name Birth Claim to fame
Polyhedra
Edwin Abbott Abbott 1838-1926 Author 1884 Flatland
Pieter Hendrik Schoute 1846-1923 Worked on polytopes together with Alicia Boole Stott
Arthur Moritz Schönflies 1853-1928 Symmetry
Henri Poincaré 1954-1912 Hyperbolic geometry
Alicia Boole Stott 1860-1940 Coined term polytope
Willem Abraham Wythoff
W. A. Wythoff
1865-1939 Wythoff construction, Studied semi-regular polytopes
Alfredo Andreini Andreini tessellation
Thorold Gosset 1869-1962 Completely enumerated the convex uniform polytopes with regular facets in 1900
Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983
M.C. Escher 1898-1972 Artist
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter 1907-2003 Uniform polyhedra, Phil. Trans. 246 A (1954)

Living

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Name Birth Claim to fame
Polyhedra
M.S. Longuet-Higgins
Magnus Wenninger 1919 List of Wenninger polyhedron models
Victor Zalgaller 1920
Eugene Dynkin 1924 Root_system#Dynkin_diagrams
J.C.P. Miller Rules of Stellation
Ian Stewart (mathematician) 1945 Author 2001 Flatterland
Neil Sloane ~1945
Rudy Rucker 1946 Author The Fourth Dimension (book)
John Skilling The complete set of uniform polyhedra, Phil. Trans. 278 A (1975)
Norman Johnson Johnson solid, uniform polychoron
John Horton Conway convex uniform polychoron
Michael J. T. Guy ~1940 Discoverer Grand antiprism
George Olshevsky Uniform Polychora Project, [1]
Branko Grünbaum ~1940 [2]
George W. Hart Geometric Sculptor, [3]
Jim McNeill Software Hedron [4]
Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician) KaleidoTile software, [5]
Wendy Krieger [6]
Don Hatch Hyperbolic tiling applet, [7]
Robert Webb Great Stella software, [8]
Alex Doskey 1968 Toroids, [9]
Jonathan Bowers 1969 Uniform Polychora Project, [10]

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