King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts

King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry

Siobhan Roberts

399 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)

nonfiction biography mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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The word geometry makes one think of circles, triangles, protracto rs and Pythagoras. By the middle of the 20th Century it all looked dead, as the excitement in maths had moved to computers and chaos theory. But one man - Donald Coxeter - kept the...

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