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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. ... It contained 41 essays on geometry, based on a symposium for Coxeter held at Toronto in 1979. [11] A second such volume, The ...

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Coxeter studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1931).In 1936 he joined the faculty of mathematics at the University of Toronto, where he remained until he retired in 1980.Coxeter wrote the entry on analytic geometry for the 1961 printing of the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.In addition, he wrote some 200 papers and a dozen books, including Non-Euclidean Geometry (1942 ...

Harold Coxeter married Katie, Katharina T K Gabler, in 1922. He was 43 years old and she was 21; they had three children ... D Logothetti and H S M Coxeter, An Interview with H S M Coxeter, the King of Geometry, The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal 11 (1) (1980), 2-19.

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-

Introduction to geometry by Coxeter, H. S. M. (Harold Scott Macdonald), 1907-2003 ... Geometry Publisher New York, Wiley Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 875.7M . xvi, 469 p. 24 cm Bibliography: p. 415-417 Access-restricted-item

Undoubtedly the world's best known geometer, Professor Coxeter has made contributions of fundamental importance to the Theory of Polytopes, Non-Euclidean geometry, Discrete Groups, and Combinatorial Theory, to name the areas of mathematical research for which he is best known. Endowed with artistic gifts himself, particularly in music, he gives ...

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter died on March 31, 2003, after sixty-seven years as professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of ... summer school under the title “Coxeter’s Geometry”. Two pieces of geometric art at The Fields Institute in Toronto were clearly initiated and encouraged by Donald Coxeter. A symmetrical ...

Harold Scott McDonald Coxeter, known as Donald, was born in London. A child musical prodigy, he was an accomplished pianist who composed various pieces for the piano, a string quartet and at the ...

Introduction to Geometry Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter Snippet view - 1961. Common terms and phrases. ... Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, FRS, FRSC, CC was a British-born Canadian geometer. Coxeter is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. He was born in London, received his BA and PhD from Cambridge, but lived ...

Harold Coxeter, 96, Who Found Profound Beauty in Geometry Dr. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, a mathematician who was hailed as one of the foremost geometricians of his generation and whose ideas inspired the drawings of M. C. Escher and influenced the architecture of R. Buckminster Fuller, died on March 31 in his home in Toronto. He was 96. Dr.

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project H. S. M. Coxeter (1907–2003), Erich W. Ellers, Branko Grünbaum, Peter McMullen, Asia Ivic Weiss Notices of the AMS: Volume 50, Number 10. "The man who saved geometry: Crying `Death to Triangles!' a generation of mathematicians tried to eliminate geometry in favor of algebra.

Harold Coxeter was a British-born, Cambridge-educated mathematician who spent most of his career (from 1936 on) at the University of Toronto and was regarded as the greatest classical geometer of his generation. ... Coxeter, H. S. M. Introduction to Geometry, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1969. 2, Coxeter, H. S. M. Regular Polytopes, 3rd ...

Results named for Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter can be found here. Definitions of concepts named for Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter can be found here. Publications. ... 1940: Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes I (Math. Z. Vol. 46: pp. 380 – 407) 1942: Non-Euclidean Geometry; 1947: Non-Euclidean Geometry (2nd ed)

Geometry is a branch of mathematics that deals with points, lines, angles, surfaces and solids. One of Coxeter’s major contributions to geometry was in the area of dimensional analogy, the process of stretching geometrical shapes into higher dimensions. ... Harold S. Coxeter Mother: Lucy Gee Spouse: Hendrina Johanna “Rien” Brouwer ...

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April 2, 2003--Noted geometer and author H. S. M. Coxeter passed away peacefully at his home in Toronto on March 31. He was 96. Known to friends and colleagues as "Donald," Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter was originally to be named "MacDonald Scott" until a godparent suggested that his father's name "Harold" be added as his first name.

About the Author Harold Scott MacDonald “Donald” Coxeter, FRS, FRSC, CC was a British-born Canadian geometer. Coxeter is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. He was born in London, received his BA and PhD from Cambridge, but lived in Canada from age 29. ... However geometry for the boomer generation has been easier ...

H. S. M. Coxeter, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter Courier Corporation , Jan 1, 1999 - Mathematics - 274 pages Written by a distinguished mathematician, the dozen absorbing essays in this versatile volume offer both supplementary classroom material and pleasurable reading for the mathematically inclined.

In the introduction to Geometry Revisited (1967), he and his co-author, S.L. Greitzer, write: Let us revisit Euclid. Let us discover for ourselves a few of the newer results. ... Harold Scott Macdonald ("Donald") Coxeter was born in 1907 in London, and educated at King Alfred School in north London, St George's School, Harpenden, ...