The Man Who Saved Geometry
The Multidimensional Mind of Donald Coxeter
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2024
416 pages
978-0-691-26475-2 (ISBN)
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10/2024
Princeton University Press
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Siobhan Roberts is an award-winning science journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times. She is the author of Genius at Play and Wind Wizard (both Princeton).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword: Some Personal Reminiscences of Donald Coxeter by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Part I-Pure Coxeter
- Chapter 0: Introducing Donald Coxeter
- Chapter 1: Mr. Polytope Goes to Budapest
- Chapter 2: Young Donald in Wonderland
- Chapter 3: Aunt Alice, and the Cambridge Cloister
- Chapter 4: Coming of Age at Princeton with the Gods of Symmetry
- Chapter 5: Love, Loss, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Chapter 6: "Death to Triangles!
- Chapter 7: Tangents on Politics and Family Values
- Chapter 8: Bourbaki Prints a Diagram
- Part II-Coxeter Applied
- Chapter 9: Bucky Fuller, and Bridging the "Geometry Gap
- Chapter 10: C60, Immunoglobulin, Zeolites, and Coxeter@Coxeter.Math.Toronto.Edu
- Chapter 11: "Coxetering" with M. C. Escher (And Praising Other Artists)
- Chapter 12: The Coxeterian Shapes of the Cosmos
- Part III-Aftermath
- Chapter 13: Full Circle Symmetry
- Appendices 1-8
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Epigraph and Art Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index
