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14 de abr. de 2024 · Driven by a profound love of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907–2003) preserved the tradition of classical geometry when it was under attack by influential mathematicians who promoted a more algebraic and austere approach.
DONALD COXETER: THE MAN WHO SAVED GEOMETRY 3 such exceptional geometric intuition that he can often see these per-fectly symmetrical shapes in his mind’s eye before he works out the proof. Among mathematicians, he is best known for discovering concepts (now called Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams) that determine how
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21 de oct. de 2009 · The Man Who Saved Geometry: Directed by David New. With Michael Broué, Elaine Chew, John Conway, Donald Coxeter. A portrait of the geometer Donald Coxeter and his ideas.
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He was an author of 12 books, including The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra (1938) and Regular Polytopes (1947). Many concepts in geometry and group theory are named after him, including the Coxeter graph, Coxeter groups, Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles, Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams, and the Todd–Coxeter algorithm.
The Man Who Saved Geometry tells the story of Coxeter’s life and work, placing him alongside history’s greatest geometers, from Pythagoras and Plato to Archimedes and Euclid—and it reveals how Coxeter’s boundless creativity reflects the adventurous, ever-evolving nature of geometry itself.
- Siobhan Roberts
Siobhan Roberts’ King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry is by far one of the best math related books I have read in years. Admittedly I am a geometer at heart, but it was far more than the mathematical content of the book which excited me.
H. S. M. (Donald) Coxeter was unquestionably the best known and most successful practitioners of "intuitive geometry" during much of the twentieth century; some writers call this he "classical geometry".
