H. S. M. Coxeter

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geometer human mathematician

H. S. M. Coxeter was a prominent 20th-century British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in geometry, especially in the study of polytopes and higher-dimensional spaces.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geometer → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Order of Canada → Sylvester Medal →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada → United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1907-02-09 →
dateOfDeath	2003-03-31 →
doctoralAdvisor	Harold Davenport → Henry Frederick Baker →
educatedAt	Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
employer	University of Toronto NERFINISHED →
familyName	Coxeter →
fieldOfWork	geometry → group theory → higher-dimensional geometry → non-Euclidean geometry → polytope theory → projective geometry → reflection groups →
givenName	Harold → MacDonald → Scott →
influenced	Donald Coxeter’s students in geometry → M. C. Escher →
knownFor	Coxeter groups → Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams → classification of regular polytopes → popularization of geometry → work on reflection groups →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Royal Society → Royal Society of Canada →
notableStudent	Branko Grünbaum → Ludwig Danzer →
notableWork	Introduction to Geometry → Non-Euclidean Geometry → Regular Complex Polytopes → Regular Polytopes → The Beauty of Geometry → The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra → The Real Projective Plane → The Twelvefold Way →
occupation	university teacher →
placeOfBirth	London →
placeOfDeath	Toronto →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Toronto →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alicia Boole Stott →	collaboratedWith
H. S. M. Coxeter ("Coxeter") →	familyName