Coxeter's work on icosahedral symmetries played an important role in the discovery by scientists at Rice University, Texas, of the Carbon 60 molecule, for which they won the 1996 Nobel Prize in ...

During the latter half of the 20th century, geometry largely fell out of favor within the mathematical community. As Canadian journalist Roberts so well describes in her first book, Donald Coxeter ...

Dr. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, a mathematician who was hailed as one of the foremost geometricians of his generation and whose ideas inspired the drawings of M.C. Escher and influenced the ...

Even in mathematical households, Donald Coxeter is hardly a household name. His reputation largely hangs on just two books, one of which is an undergraduate introduction to geometry. Though British, ...

Consider the set S n of all rearrangments of the numbers 1,2,3,...,n. We may represent each rearrangement in S n by diagrams like the ones below, where we use oriented strings to indicate where each ...

To generations of schoolchildren, myself included, the name of HSM Coxeter stood for the wonder of geometry. The spectacular images - polyhedra radiating out in star shapes, and rotating rings of ...

Donald Coxeter, 96, a mathematician who was one of the 20th century's foremost specialists in geometry and a man of great determination and strength of character as well, died March 31 at his home in ...