Mathematician:Alicia Boole Stott

Mathematician
Irish-English mathematician who made substantial contributions to the field of four-dimensional geometry, which she famously grasped at a very early age.

Coined the word polytope. Daughter of and sister-in-law of.

Nationality
Irish (then part of Great Britain), later English.

History

 * Born: 8 June 1860 in Cork, Ireland
 * 1914: Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen
 * Died: 17 December 1940 in Highgate Middlesex, England

Publications

 * 1900: On certain series of sections of the regular four-dimensional hypersolids
 * 1907: On Models of 3-dimensional sections of regular hypersolids in space of 4 dimensions (with )
 * 1908: On the sections of a block of eight-cells by a space rotating about a plane (with )
 * 1910: Over wederkeerigheid in verband met halfregelmatige polytopen en netten (with )

Also known as
Known informally to her friends as Alice.