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 George Boole and sister-in-law of Charles Howard Hinton.

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 Pieter Hendrik Schoute)
• 1908: On the sections of a block of eight-cells by a space rotating about a plane (with Pieter Hendrik Schoute)
• 1910: Over wederkeerigheid in verband met halfregelmatige polytopen en netten (with Pieter Hendrik Schoute)
• 1910: Geometrical deduction of semiregular from regular polytopes and space fillings (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Verhandelingen Natuurkunde, Eerste Sectie Vol. 11, no. 1: pp. 1 – 24)

Also known as

Known informally to her friends as Alice.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Alicia Boole Stott": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive