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The Man Who Saved Geometry | Princeton University Press Skip Nav Books Resources Ideas About Subjects Open cart Menu The Man Who Saved Geometry: The Multidimensional Mind of Donald Coxeter Front Cover Table of Contents Chapter Index Buy This The Man Who Saved Geometry Siobhan Roberts Paperback ISBN: 9780691264745 29.95/£25.00 ebook (EPUB via app) ISBN: 9780691264752 29.95/£25.00 ebook (PDF via app) ISBN: 9780691264752 29.95/£25.00 Shipping to: Choose Country United States Canada United Kingdom Afghanistan Aland Islands Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua And Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Bosnia And Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo Congo, Democratic Republic Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote D'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard Island & Mcdonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic Of Iraq Ireland Isle Of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Korea People' Republic Of Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Federated States Of Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Barthelemy Saint Helena Saint Kitts And Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Pierre And Miquelon Saint Vincent And Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome And Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia And Sandwich Isl. 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More ebook (EPUB via app) Price: 29.95/£25.00 ISBN: 9780691264745 Published: Oct 29, 2024 Copyright: 2024 Pages: 416 Size: 5.25 x 8 in. Illus: 74 b/w illus. More ebook (PDF via app) Price: 29.95/£25.00 ISBN: 9780691264745 Published: Oct 29, 2024 Copyright: 2024 Pages: 416 Size: 5.25 x 8 in. Illus: 74 b/w illus. More Add to Cart Request Exam Copy Download Cover Share Overview Author(s) Praise Driven by a profound love of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907–2003) preserved the tradition of classical geometry when it was under attack by influential mathematicians who promoted a more algebraic and austere approach. His essential contributions include the famed Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams, tools developed through his deep understanding of mathematical symmetry. The Man Who Saved Geometry tells the story of Coxeter’s life and work, placing him alongside history’s greatest geometers, from Pythagoras and Plato to Archimedes and Euclid—and it reveals how Coxeter’s boundless creativity reflects the adventurous, ever-evolving nature of geometry itself. With an incisive, touching foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter, The Man Who Saved Geometry is an unforgettable portrait of a visionary mathematician. Siobhan Roberts is an award-winning science journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times . She is the author of Genius at Play and Wind Wizard (both Princeton). “Imagine you grew up as a super fan of a musician or artist who made your world make sense, but in this case it’s the mathematician who inspired the titanic artists of the era. You crawled through libraries to trace every last little scrap of their work, the deep tracks. You grew up in a weird hippie geometric house inspired by their insights. You spent hours internalizing shapes that were hard to imagine, that they were the first to describe. And then this book, which brings the person into focus. Imagine your heart beating just a little faster as you open this book. That is what will happen.”—Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, author, composer, pioneer of virtual reality “As someone much of whose academic research has been on algebraic structures discovered by, and named after, Donald Coxeter, I found this book an absolute joy. Siobhan Roberts has a rare gift for biography. Her narrative is full of compelling anecdotes and her writing on complex topics is beautifully clear. This is a fabulous book!”—Sarah Hart, author of Once upon a Prime “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 “There is no substitute for Coxeter, and no substitute for this long-overdue treatment of his life.”—Jordan Ellenberg, Washington Post “Siobhan Roberts has achieved something extraordinary with this book, a paean to a geometer and all geometry. It tells a brave, compelling story. It comprehends a whole universe—our universe—of kaleidoscopes and crystals, groups and symmetry, bicycles and snowflakes, music and movement. It is lucid, beautiful, and exalting.”—James Gleick, author of Chaos “ The Man Who Saved Geometry offers poignant looks into Coxeter’s soul.”—Jeffrey Rosenthal, Globe and Mail “An elegant biography of an elegant man.”—John Horton Conway, Princeton University More About This Book → ← 01 / 03 Related Books Genius at Play Siobhan Roberts Wind Wizard Siobhan Roberts Quasiperiodic Solutions of the Generalized SQG Equation Javier Gómez-Serrano , Alexandru D. Ionescu , and Jaemin Park The Delicate Art of Brute Force Paul J. Nahin Reaching for the Extreme Ian Stewart Stay connected for the latest books, Ideas, and special offers. Stay connected for the latest book news. Top United States 41 William Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 United States Phone: +1 609 258 4900 Directions to the United States office Europe 99 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6JX United Kingdom Phone: +44 1993 814500 Directions to the Europe office China Princeton Asia (Beijing) Consulting Co., Ltd. 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