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Also Known As Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Born February 9, 1907 • London • England
Died March 31, 2003 (aged 96) • Toronto • Canada
Subjects Of Study non-Euclidean geometry • polytope
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Kingdon Clifford
British mathematician and philosopher
Nathaniel Bliss
English astronomer
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian journalist and writer
Lord Beaverbrook, 1941.
Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
British politician and journalist
Michael Smith
Canadian chemist
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
British publisher
Patrick Anderson
Canadian poet
Robert McKenzie
British political scientist
Richard Bulkeley
British statesman
Heavysege, Charles
Charles Heavysege
British-Canadian poet
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist.
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Russian mathematician

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