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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter 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. Veniva chiamato anche Donald Coxeter.
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter CC FRS FRSC (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
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...
Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, FRS, 1907–2003. Donald Coxeter was the twentieth century’s greatest classical geometer and the leading authority on polytopes. His Coxeter groups, deepening the investigation of symmetries, have found wide application in the sciences. A precocious childhood.
- Siobhan Roberts, Asia Ivić Weiss
- 2009
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.
H. S. M. Coxeter, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto for more than 30 years, was an extraordinary mathematician. While he was one of the greatest and most successful members of the mathematical community, his work was inspired by the world around him, and he contributed to it. He pursued mathematics as a form of art.
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 a man with a vision. His whole life was devoted to the discovery and the description of the symmetries that exist in Euclidean spaces of any dimension.
