Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
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Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter CC FRS FRSC (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003)[2] was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.[3]
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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter | |
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Born | (1907-02-09)9 February 1907 London, England |
Died | 31 March 2003(2003-03-31) (aged 96) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (B.A., 1929; Ph.D., 1931) |
Known for | Coxeter element Coxeter functor Coxeter graph Coxeter group Coxeter matroid Coxeter notation Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles Coxeter–Dynkin diagram Coxeter–Todd lattice Boerdijk–Coxeter helix Goldberg–Coxeter construction Todd–Coxeter algorithm* Tutte–Coxeter graph LCF notation Regular skew apeirohedra |
Spouse(s) | Hendrina, died in 1999 |
Children | a daughter, Susan Thomas, and a son, Edgar |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Geometry |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
Doctoral advisor | H. F. Baker[1] |
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