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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
H S M Coxeter; Chandler Davis; Erich W Ellers |
| ISBN: | 0821837222 9780821837221 |
| OCLC Number: | 62282754 |
| Description: | x, 320 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups / Bernhard Mühlherr -- Coxeter theory : the cognitive aspects / Alexandre V. Borovik -- From Galois and Lie to Tits buildings / Mark Ronan -- Coxeter element and the branching law for the finite subgroup of SU (2) / Bertram Kostant -- Hyperbolic Coxeter groups and space forms / Ruth Kellerhals -- Regular and chiral polytopes in low dimensions / Peter McMullen and Egon Schulte -- Polytopes, honeycombs, groups and graphs / Barry Monson and Asia Ivić Weiss -- Equivelar polyhedra / Jörg Wills -- Combinatorics of sections of polytopes and Coxeter groups in Lobachevsky spaces / Askold Khovanskii -- Donald and the Golden Rhombohedra / Marjorie Senechal -- Configurations of points and lines / Branko Grünbaum -- Meditations on Ceva's theorem / Jürgen Richter-Gebert -- Coxeter and the artists : two-way inspiration / Doris Schattschneider -- Visual mind : art, mathematics and cinema / Michele Emmer. |
| Responsibility: | Chandler Davis, Erlich W. Ellers, editors. |
Abstract:
This collection of essays on the legacy of mathematician Donald Coxeter is a mixture of surveys, updates, history, storytelling and personal memories covering both applied and abstract maths. Subjects include: polytopes, Coxeter groups, equivelar polyhedra, Ceva's theorum, and Coxeter and the artists.
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