A biographical sketch, a primary bibliography, and 26 papers by the English-born mathematician Coxeter, a fixture at the University of Toronto since the 1930s and a major figure in 20th-century geometry. The original paper and facsimiles of the journal publications of the rest include expositions of the nine regular solids, the densities of the regular polytopes, trisecting an orthoscheme, discrete and finite groups generated by reflection, and extreme forms. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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.