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4 unusual facts about Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter


George Phillips Odom, Jr.

In the mid 1970s he contacted the Canadian geometer Coxeter as he felt his art work was of some mathematical interest as well.

LCF notation

In combinatorial mathematics, LCF notation or LCF code is a notation devised by Joshua Lederberg, and extended by Coxeter and Frucht, for the representation of cubic graphs that are Hamiltonian.

Ludwig Schläfli

Later Willem Abraham Wijthoff studied semi-regular polytopes and this work was continued by H.S.M. Coxeter, John Conway and others.

Wilhelm Killing

As A. J. Coleman says, "He exhibited the characteristic equation of the Weyl group when Weyl was 3 years old and listed the orders of the Coxeter transformation 19 years before Coxeter was born."


Final stellation of the icosahedron

1938: In their 1938 book The Fifty Nine Icosahedra, H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather and J. F. Petrie stated a set of stellation rules for the regular icosahedron and gave a systematic enumeration of the fifty-nine stellations which conform to those rules.


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