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Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter CC FRS FRSC (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) [2] was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. [3]Coxeter was born in England and educated at the University of Cambridge, with student visits to Princeton University.He worked for 60 years at the University of Toronto in Canada ...

Donald Coxeter's father was Harold Samuel Coxeter (1878-1936) who was a manufacturer of surgical instruments. He had wanted to be a doctor but family pressure saw him join Coxeter & Son, a company founded by his grandfather. An intelligent man with a broad general knowledge, he sculpted and sang as a hobby.

And there can be no better guide to the majestic reach of geometry than Donald Coxeter, perhaps the greatest geometer of the twentieth century. Many of the greatest names in intellectual history were geometers—Archimedes and Einstein among them—and their creativity and achievements illuminate those of Coxeter, revealing geometry to be a ...

Donald Coxeter was born in 1907, and raised in a house just out-side London, England, that was fllled with art and music. His father, Harold, had a solid baritone voice and a passion for sculpture but un-willingly became the \Son" in Coxeter & Son, a family business that manufactured surgical instruments. (The company invented a mecha-

Driven by a profound love of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907–2003) preserved the tradition of classical geometry when it was under attack by influential mathematicians who promoted a more algebraic and austere approach. His essential contributions include the famed Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams, tools developed through his ...

H. S. M. (Donald) Coxeter was unquestionably the best known and most successful practitioners of "intuitive geometry" during much of the twentieth century; some writers call this he "classical geometry". "Intuitive geometry" is used here to denote the part of geometry that starts with the study of simple figures (points, lines, polygons ...

Donald Coxeter was one of the leading mathematicians, and perhaps the greatest geometer, of the last century. British by birth and training, he spent his working life in Canada, as a professor at the University of Toronto from 1936 until his retirement.

Russell helped the Coxeters find an excellent math tutor who worked with Coxeter, enabling him to enter Cambridge University. Coxeter was known as H. S. M. Coxeter, though friends and relatives called him Donald. Here’s the explanation: At birth he was given the name MacDonald Scott Coxeter, which led to his being called Donald for short.

He is best known for his introduction of what are now referred to as Coxeter groups. His name is attached to a number of mathematical concepts including the Coxeter diagram, Coxeter complex, Coxeter element, Coxeter graph, Coxeter number, and Coxeter system. Donald was a most prolific writer. He had over 200 publications including several books.

An illuminating biography of one of the greatestgeometers of the twentieth century Driven by a profoundlove of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907-2003)...

Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, Ph.D. was a British born Canadian Geometer, regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. At 10 years old, he was already an accomplished pianist. He felt that mathematics and music were related and published an article outlining his ideas in 1962 titled "On Mathematics and Music ...

Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, CC (February 9, 1907 – March 31, 2003)[2] was a British-born Canadian geometer. Coxeter is regarded as one of the great geometers of the 20th century. He was born in London but spent most of his life in Canada. Biography. In his youth, Coxeter composed music and was an accomplished pianist at the age ...

Always known as "Donald," he is best known for his work on hyperdimensional geometries and regular polytopes. In 1926, at the age of 19, Coxeter discovered a new regular polyhedron, having six hexagonal faces at each vertex. ... Coxeter was a close friend of the artist M. C. Escher, ...

Siobhan Roberts met Donald Coxeter when she was a journalist at the National Post and writing a profile on the greatest living classical geometer. Shortly thereafter, she followed Coxeter to the last two geometry conferences he would attend — at Banff, Alberta, and then at Budapest, Hungary, in 2002 for a celebration of the 200th anniversary of

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Donald Coxeter, as he was known, has died at the age of 96. Based for most of his life in Toronto, he was the greatest of the remarkable geometers inspired by HF Baker at Cambridge University before the second world war; others included P Du Val, W L Edge and W V D Hodge.

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Born : 31st May, 1865 Died : 5th January, 1945 Married : Elizabeth Mattocks - from Chicago. ( m. October 1982 ) They had 4 children : Marietta ( b.1894 d.1920 m. Hartshorne ) Elizabeth ( b.1896 d.1980 m. Patterson ) Simeon Brooks Chapin Jr. ( b.1903 d. 1949 ) Virginia ( b. 1908 d. ? m. Frye ) Parents : Emory David Chapin - from Miwaukee &; Mariette Armour from Chicago.

Donald Coxeter was one of the leading mathematicians, and perhaps the greatest geometer, of the last century. British by birth and training, he spent his working life in Canada, as a professor at the

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