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Kaleidoscopes : selected writings of H.S.M. Coxeter

[introduced and compiled by] F. Arthur Sherk ... [et al.]

(Canadian Mathematical Society series of monographs and advanced texts)

Wiley & Sons, c1995

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"Published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Mathematical Society"

"A Wiley-Interscience publication"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

H.S.M. Coxeter is one of the world's best-known mathematicians who wrote several papers and books on geometry, algebra and topology, and finite mathematics. This book is being published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Mathematical Society and it is a collection of 26 papers written by Dr. Coxeter.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents: The Nine Regular Solids. The Regular Sponges, or Skew Polyhedra. Two Aspects of the Regular 24-Cell. The Densities of the Regular Polytopes I. The Densities of theRegular Polytopes II. The Densities of the Regular Polytopes III. A Challenging Definite Integral. Groups Whose Fundamental Regions Are Simplexes. Discrete Groups Generated by Reflections. Finite Groups Generated by Reflections, and Their SubgroupsGenerated by Reflections. Orthogonal Trees. The Product of the Generators of a Finite Group Generated byReflections. Extreme Forms. Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes I. Regular and Semi-RegularPolytopes II. Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III. Factor Groups of the Braid Group. Finite Groups Generated by Unitary Reflections. Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA25584936
  • ISBN
    • 0471010030
  • LCCN
    94047368
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxx, 439 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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