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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Coxeter was one of the leaders in geometry, algebra, topology and finite mathematics. This book is a collection of approximately 30 papers, organized by subject, published between 1931 and 1991. Covers such areas as polytopes, abstract groups and the evolution of the Coxeter Dynkin diagram. Features reproductions of original publications by Coxeter, some remarkably containing his own handwritten margin notes.
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A polygon is said to be regular if it has equal sides and equal angles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spherical orthoscheme, basic invariant forms, central quotient group, pyritohedral group, regular skew polygon, star polytopes, skew polyhedron, uniform polytopes, pentagramma mirificum, simplicial prism, whole polytope, general cubic surface, obtuse dihedral angles, one point invariant, several polytopes, unitary reflection groups, skew polyhedra, measure polytope, nonlattice packing, tritangent planes, whose fundamental regions, regular complex polytopes, whose dihedral angles, typical vertex, spherical simplex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, London Math, University of Toronto, Gesammelte Mathematische Abhandlungen, Royal Soc, Duke Math, Annals of Math, Cambridge University Press, Trinity College, Nieuw Archief, Mathematische Modelle, Neue Denkschr, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Southern Illinois Univ New!
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A polygon is said to be regular if it has equal sides and equal angles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spherical orthoscheme, basic invariant forms, central quotient group, pyritohedral group, regular skew polygon, star polytopes, skew polyhedron, uniform polytopes, pentagramma mirificum, simplicial prism, whole polytope, general cubic surface, obtuse dihedral angles, one point invariant, several polytopes, unitary reflection groups, skew polyhedra, measure polytope, nonlattice packing, tritangent planes, whose fundamental regions, regular complex polytopes, whose dihedral angles, typical vertex, spherical simplex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, London Math, University of Toronto, Gesammelte Mathematische Abhandlungen, Royal Soc, Duke Math, Annals of Math, Cambridge University Press, Trinity College, Nieuw Archief, Mathematische Modelle, Neue Denkschr, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Southern Illinois Univ New!
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- Regular Polytopes (Dover Books on Mathematics) by H. S. M. Coxeter on 14 pages
- Regular Complex Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter on 5 pages
- Twelve Geometric Essays by H. S. M. Coxeter on 4 pages
- Mathematical Recreations and Essays (Dover Recreational Math) by W. W. Rouse Ball on 4 pages
- Lectures on the Icosahedron (Dover Phoenix Editions) by Felix Klein on page 7, page 224, and page 414
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