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

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The word geometry makes one think of circles, triangles, protractors 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 torch burning, showing how geometry is at the core of all mathematics, and indeed governs our life from architecture to car design, from animated films to food molecules. He showed the importance of geometry for data mining - now the most innovative area of computer research - and ...

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King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry 2007, Profile Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9781846680076

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King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry 2006, Walker & Company, New York

ISBN-13: 9780802714992

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King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry 2006, House of Anansi Press, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780887842016

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