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The Man Who Saved Geometry tells the story of Coxeter’s life and work, placing him alongside history’s greatest geometers, from Pythagoras and Plato to Archimedes and Euclid—and it reveals how Coxeter’s boundless creativity reflects the adventurous, ever-evolving nature of geometry itself.
DONALD COXETER: THE MAN WHO SAVED GEOMETRY 3 such exceptional geometric intuition that he can often see these per-fectly symmetrical shapes in his mind’s eye before he works out the proof. Among mathematicians, he is best known for discovering concepts (now called Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams) that determine how
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14 apr 2024 · The Man Who Saved Geometry tells the story of Coxeter’s life and work, placing him alongside history’s greatest geometers, from Pythagoras and Plato to Archimedes and Euclid—and it reveals how Coxeter’s boundless creativity reflects the adventurous, ever-evolving nature of geometry itself.
13 mag 2024 · The Man Who Saved Geometry tells the story of Coxeter’s life and work, placing him alongside history’s greatest geometers, from Pythagoras and Plato to Archimedes and Euclid—and it reveals how Coxeter’s boundless creativity reflects the adventurous, ever-evolving nature of geometry itself.
Luckily, then, Coxeter had geometry as a backup. Coxeter described geometry with his ditty of a definition: “Geometry is the study of figures and figures” — figures as in shapes (circles, triangles, dodecahedrons), and figures as in numbers. Coxeter’s geometry was the classical style,
A festschrift in his honour, The Geometric Vein, was published in 1982. It contained 41 essays on geometry, based on a symposium for Coxeter held at Toronto in 1979. A second such volume, The Coxeter Legacy, was published in 2006 based on a Toronto Coxeter symposium held in 2004. Works
Nel 2006 la giornalista canadese Siobhan Roberts ha scritto una biografia su Donald Coxeter, dal titolo King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry ( Il re dello spazio infinito: Donald Coxeter, l'uomo che salvò la geometria, Rizzoli). È stato membro della Royal Society. Morì all'età di 96 anni il 31 marzo 2003. Opere.
