Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Based on a Toronto Coxeter symposium held in 2004
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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
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science · Canadian geometer (1907–2003) · mathematician · university teacher · also Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, H.S.M. Coxeter, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, H. S. M. Coxeter, Coxeter
Born 9 February 1907 · Died 31 March 2003 · Q129916
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2003· 1 entry
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Died 2003-03-31.
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1999· 2 entries
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After which Coxeter travelled with his daughter, Susan
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His wife, Rien died in 1999, after which Coxeter travelled with his daughter, Susan.
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1997· 2 entries
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (1997).
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Won Sylvester Medal (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
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Awarded CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
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Became a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada
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1973· 1 entry
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Awarded Jeffery–Williams Prize (1973).
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1954· 1 entry
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And the two became lifelong friends; his work on geometric figures helped inspire some of Escher's works, particularly the Circle Limit series based on hyperbolic tessellations
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1950· 2 entries
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1950).
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And in 1997 he was awarded their Sylvester Medal
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1949· 1 entry
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Won Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1949).
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1948· 2 entries
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1948).
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And a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950
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1947· 1 entry
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By Pitman Publishing in 1948, the second edition by Macmillan in 1963, and the third edition by Dover Publications in 1973
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1940· 1 entry
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Coxeter edited the eleventh edition of Mathematical Recreations and Essays, originally published by W
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1938· 1 entry
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Describes the 59 stellations of a regular icosahedron, made by extending its faces to form a star-shaped solid
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1936· 1 entry
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Coxeter moved to the University of Toronto
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1934· 1 entry
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Spent a further year at Princeton as a Procter Fellow
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1933· 1 entry
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Studied at Princeton University (1931–1933).
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1932· 1 entry
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Went to Princeton University for a year as a Rockefeller Fellow, where he worked with Hermann Weyl, Oswald Veblen, and Solomon Lefschetz
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1931· 1 entry
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Studied at University of Cambridge (1928–1931).
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1928· 1 entry
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Studied at Trinity College (1926–1928).
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1926· 1 entry
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Took the concept of regular skew polygons—where the vertices are not in the same plane—to three-dimensional polyhedra
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1925· 2 entries
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Studied at Marlborough College (1923–1925).
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But decided to spend a year studying in hopes of gaining admittance to Trinity College, where the standard of mathematics was higher
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1923· 1 entry
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Studied at St George's School (1919–1923).
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1919· 1 entry
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Studied at The King Alfred School (1919).
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1907· 1 entry
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Born 1907-02-09.
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