Book ID: CBB000830730

King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry (2006)

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Roberts, Siobhan (Author)


Walker & Company


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xv + 399 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Gray, Jeremy J. (2007) Review of "King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 875). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Battaglia, Fiammetta
Charlotte Victorine Pollet
Tomassini, Adriano
De Bartolomeis, Paolo
Nannicini, Antonella
Frank, Martin
Journals
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Leonardo
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
Raffaello Cortina Editore
Carlos Albizu University
World Scientific
Women's Press
University of Calgary Press
Concepts
Biographies
Mathematics
Geometry
Mathematicians
Physics
Astronomy
People
Coxeter, Harold Scott MacDonald
Archimedes
De Bartolomeis, Paolo
Pauling, Linus Carl
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Wrinch, Dorothy Maud
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Ancient
20th century, early
18th century
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Places
Canada
Italy
Arctic regions
Sicily
Turin (Italy)
Québec (Canada)
Institutions
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Yerkes Laboratories for Primate Biology
Montreal Neurological Institute
University of Toronto
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