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
- Definition:Coxeter-Dynkin Diagram (with Eugene Borisovich Dynkin)
- Definition:Coxeter-Group
- Tutte-Coxeter Graph (with William Thomas Tutte)
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 Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins and Jeffrey Charles Percy 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.