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Since the time of the Greek mathematicians, geometry has always been at the center of science. Therefore according to the author scientists cannot resist explaining natural phenomena in terms of the language of geometry. And in order to understand the future of geometry, it is perhaps useful to review what was known in the past. A huge review of geometry and analysis is presented in the article. The sections of the article are: I. Submanifolds. A. Isometric embedding of surfaces. B. Different geometries. C. Minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). D. Closed extremal surfaces. E. Motion of surfaces. F. Representation of surfaces in Euclidean space. G. Minimal surfaces in spheres. H. Submanifolds in higher dimensional space. II. Intrinsic geometry. A. Constraints on the full curvature tensor. B. The Ricci tensor. C. Scalar curvature. III. Conclusion. To summarize some of the highlights of the article the author recorded a list of ten important problems. There are 227 references in the article. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1047.00015].