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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter

1907 - 2003

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Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. Coxeter was born in England and educated at the University of Cambridge, with student visits to Princeton University. He worked for 60 years at the University of Toronto in Canada, from 1936 until his retirement in 1996, becoming a full professor there in 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter is the 647th most popular mathematician (down from 591st in 2019), the 3,130th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,761st in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter ranks 647 out of 1,004. Before him are John Playfair, Beppo Levi, Heinz Hopf, Federico Commandino, Lev Schnirelmann, and Edward Routh. After him are Tommaso Ceva, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Alessandro Galilei, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Dai Zhen, and Haskell Curry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter ranks 219. Before him are James M. Gavin, Ernst Albrecht, Sanya Dharmasakti, Béla Barényi, Zezé Moreira, and Ragnar Gustavsson. After him are Gordon Douglas, Vasja Pirc, Ludwig Biermann, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Đuro Kurepa, and Jean Aerts. Among people deceased in 2003, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter ranks 201. Before him are Francesco Colasuonno, Fadwa Tuqan, Saifuddin Azizi, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Philip Stone, and Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov. After him are Fedora Barbieri, Lev Kerbel, Giorgio Gaber, Piet Dankert, Naftali Temu, and Mutsuhiro Watanabe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter ranks 3,131 out of 8,785. Before him are Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Gerald Moore (1899), Chris Vance (1971), Christiane Amanpour (1958), Ian Wright (1963), and W. S. Gilbert (1836). After him are William Camden (1551), Belinda Lee (1935), B. C. Forbes (1880), Phil Manzanera (1951), Graham McTavish (1961), and Humphrey Gilbert (1539).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter ranks 68. Before him are Thomas Wright (1711), Henry Dudeney (1857), Sydney Chapman (1888), James Ivory (1765), Douglas Hartree (1897), and John Playfair (1748). After him are William Burnside (1852), Robert Simson (1687), John Hadley (1682), Egon Pearson (1895), Paul Bernays (1888), and Benjamin Robins (1707).

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