Kaleidoscopes
Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
472 pages
978-0-471-01003-6 (ISBN)
Description
H.S.M. Coxeter is one of the world's best-known mathematicians who wrote several papers and books on geometry, algebra and topology, and finite mathematics. This book is being published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Mathematical Society and it is a collection of 26 papers written by Dr. Coxeter.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
905 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-01003-6 (9780471010036)
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F. Arthur Sherk is the author of Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, published by Wiley.
Content
Partial table of contents:
The Nine Regular Solids.
The Regular Sponges, or Skew Polyhedra.
Two Aspects of the Regular 24-Cell.
The Densities of the Regular Polytopes I. The Densities of theRegular Polytopes II.
The Densities of the Regular Polytopes III.
A Challenging Definite Integral.
Groups Whose Fundamental Regions Are Simplexes.
Discrete Groups Generated by Reflections.
Finite Groups Generated by Reflections, and Their SubgroupsGenerated by Reflections.
Orthogonal Trees.
The Product of the Generators of a Finite Group Generated byReflections.
Extreme Forms.
Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes I. Regular and Semi-RegularPolytopes II.
Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III.
Factor Groups of the Braid Group.
Finite Groups Generated by Unitary Reflections.
Index.
The Nine Regular Solids.
The Regular Sponges, or Skew Polyhedra.
Two Aspects of the Regular 24-Cell.
The Densities of the Regular Polytopes I. The Densities of theRegular Polytopes II.
The Densities of the Regular Polytopes III.
A Challenging Definite Integral.
Groups Whose Fundamental Regions Are Simplexes.
Discrete Groups Generated by Reflections.
Finite Groups Generated by Reflections, and Their SubgroupsGenerated by Reflections.
Orthogonal Trees.
The Product of the Generators of a Finite Group Generated byReflections.
Extreme Forms.
Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes I. Regular and Semi-RegularPolytopes II.
Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III.
Factor Groups of the Braid Group.
Finite Groups Generated by Unitary Reflections.
Index.