Harold Coxeter - Wikipedia
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (Londra, 9 febbraio 1907 – Toronto, 31 marzo 2003) è stato un matematico inglese. Inglese di nascita, svolse la maggior parte della sua attività in Canada; il suo campo principale di investigazione è stata la geometria.
Harold Coxeter, 96, Who Found Profound Beauty in Geometry
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 ...
Harold Coxeter - New York Times obituary - MacTutor History of ...
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 (1907 - 2003) - WikiTree
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, CC, FRS, FRSC (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was was born in Kensington to Harold Samuel Coxeter and Lucy (née Gee). [1] His father was a manufacturer of surgical instruments and compressed gases; his mother was a portrait and landscape painter who had attended the Royal Academy of Arts.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, CC FRS FRSC - Geni.com
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 ...
Donald Coxeter - Wikipedia
Harold Scott MacDonald (Donald) Coxeter CC (Londen, 9 februari 1907 – Toronto, 31 maart 2003) was wiskundige uit Groot-Brittannië, die na zijn huwelijk in 1936 naar Canada is verhuisd. Hij wordt gezien als een van de grootste meetkundigen van de 20ste eeuw .
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter – Wikipedia
Nach Coxeter wurden unter anderem der Todd-Coxeter-Algorithmus und die Coxeter-Gruppen benannt. Coxeter wurde 1941 als Mitglied („Fellow“) in die Royal Society of Canada und 1950 in die Royal Society, die ihm 1997 die Sylvester-Medaille verlieh, aufgenommen. Von 1962 bis 1963 war er Präsident der Canadian Mathematical Society, die ihm 1995 den Graham Wright Award verlieh.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter - The Canadian Encyclopedia
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, "Donald," mathematician (b at London, Eng 9 Feb 1907; d at Toronto, 31March 2003). Coxeter received his BA (1929) and PhD (1931) at Cambridge. He was a research fellow there from 1931 to 1935, spending 2 years as research visitor at Princeton. He joined the University of Toronto's mathematics department in 1936 ...
Professor H. S. M. Coxeter - Independent obituary
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, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He got his PhD in 1931 at Cambridge, and was a research fellow at Trinity from 1931 to 1936 , during which he spent two years, as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow ...
Geometry Loses One of Its Most Eloquent Expositors - Wolfram MathWorld
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.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (9 de febrero de 1907 - 31 de marzo de 2003) [1] es considerado como un importante geómetra del siglo XX.Nacido en Londres, trabajó la mayor parte de su vida en Canadá.. Educado en la Universidad de Cambridge, trabajó desde 1936 durante cerca de 60 años en la Universidad de Toronto publicando doce libros y más de 200 textos académicos.
science.ca : Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter
Then somebody noticed that H. M. S. Coxeter sounded like the name of a ship. They finally changed the names around to Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter. At 19, in 1926, before Coxeter had a university degree, he discovered a new regular polyhedron, a shape having six hexagonal faces at each vertex.
Coxeter, Harold Scott MacDonald (1907–2003) - David Darling
Coxeter was a close friend of the artist M. C. Escher, whom he met in 1954, and also of Buckminster Fuller, who used Coxeter's ideas in his architecture. Indeed Coxeter's work was motivated by a strong artistic temperament and a sense of what is beautiful.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter - Wikipedia
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, Ordinul Canadei (d), FRS (d), FRSC (d) [18] (n. 9 februarie 1907, Metropolitan Borough of Kensington (d), Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 31 martie 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) a fost un matematician britanic și, mai apoi, canadian.El este considerat unul dintre cei mai mari matematicieni ai secolului al XX-lea ...
H. S. M. Coxeter - American Mathematical Society
H. S. M. Coxeter (1907–2003) Erich W. Ellers, Branko Grünbaum, Peter McMullen, Asia Ivic´Weiss 1234 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 50, NUMBER 10 Erich W. Ellers Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter died on March 31, 2003, after sixty-seven years as professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Toronto. Always known as Donald, he was ...
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter — Wikipédia
Harold Scott MacDonald « Donald » Coxeter (9 février 1907, Londres - 31 mars 2003, à Toronto, au Canada) est un mathématicien britannique. Il est considéré comme un des grands géomètres du XX e siècle. Une de ses idées originales fut de définir une conique comme une courbe autoduale.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter - scientificlib.com
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.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter – Wikipedia
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (fødd 9. mars 1907 i London, død 31. mars 2003) var ein engelsk matematikar.. Han hadde doktorgrad ved Universitet i Cambridge frå 1931 og frå 1936 professor ved Universitetet i Toronto i Canada fram til han døydde. Hovudinteressa var geometri, og han gav vesentleg bidrag til teorien for polytop, ikkje-euklidsk geometri og gruppeteori.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter - Wikipedia - Al-Quds University
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