Mathematician:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
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Mathematician
British-born Canadian mathematician who is best known for his work in geometry.
Nationality
British / Canadian
History
- Born: 9 February 1907 in London, England
- Died: 31 March 2003 in Toronto, Canada
Theorems and Definitions
- Coxeter Element
- Coxeter Functor
- Coxeter Graph
- Coxeter Group
- Coxeter Matroid
- Coxeter Notation
- Coxeter-Dynkin Diagram (with Eugene Borisovich Dynkin)
- Coxeter-Todd Lattice (with John Arthur Todd)
- Boerdijk-Coxeter Helix (with A.H. Boerdijk)
- Goldberg-Coxeter Construction
- Tutte-Coxeter Graph (with William Thomas Tutte)
- LCF Notation (with Joshua Lederberg and Robert Wertheimer Frucht)
Results named for Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter can be found here.
Publications
- 1939: Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 11th ed. (with W.W. Rouse Ball)
- 1940: Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes I (Math. Z. Vol. 46: pp. 380 – 407)
- 1942: Non-Euclidean Geometry
- 1947: Non-Euclidean Geometry (2nd ed)
- 1949: The Real Projective Plane
- 1953: The Golden Section, Phyllotaxis, and Wythoft's Game (Scripta Math. Vol. 19: pp. 135 – 143)
- 1954: Uniform polyhedra (Phil. Trans. Ser. A Vol. 246: p. 401) (with M.S. Longuet-Higgins and J.C.P. Miller)
- 1957: Map-Coloring Problems (Scripta Math. Vol. 23: pp. 11 – 25)
- 1957: Non-Euclidean Geometry (3rd ed)
- 1957: Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups (with William Moser)
- 1961: Non-Euclidean Geometry (4th ed)
- 1961: Introduction to Geometry
- 1963: Regular Polytopes (2nd edition)
- 1965: Non-Euclidean Geometry (5th ed)
- 1967: Geometry Revisited (with S.L. Greitzer)
- 1970: Twisted honeycombs
- 1973: Regular Polytopes (3rd edition)
- 1974: Projective Geometry (2nd edition)
- 1974: Regular Complex Polytopes
- 1974: Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 12th ed. (with W.W. Rouse Ball)
- 1985: Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II (Math. Z. Vol. 188: pp. 559 – 591)
- 1988: Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III (Math. Z. Vol. 200: pp. 3 – 45)
- 1998: Non-Euclidean Geometry (6th ed)
- 1999: The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays
Also known as
Sometimes erroneously reported as H.M.S. Coxeter.