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"There is perhaps no better way to prepare for the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow than to learn the language of geometry." Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe The word "geometry" brings to mind an array of mathematical circles, triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem. Yet geometry is so much more than shapes and numbers; indeed, it governs much of our livesfrom architecture and microchips to car design, animated movies, the molecules of food, even our own body chemistry. And as Siobhan Roberts elegantly conveys in The King of Infinite Space , there can be no better guide to the majesty of geometry than Donald Coxeter, perhaps the greatest geometer of the twentieth century. Many of the greatest names in intellectual historyPythagoras, Plato, Archimedes, Euclid were geometers, and their creativity and achievements illuminate those of Coxeter, revealing geometry to be a living, ever-evolving endeavor, an intellectual adventure that has always been a building block of civilization. Coxeter's special contributionshis famed Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagramshave been called by other mathematicians "tools as essential as numbers themselves," but his greatest achievement was to

Who reads King of infinite space : Donald Coxeter, the man who saved geometry?

Author

Siobhan Roberts

Publisher

Walker & Company

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802714992

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Mathematics

Rating

3.7 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14