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Also Known As Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Born February 9, 1907 • London • England
Died March 31, 2003 (aged 96) • Toronto • Canada
Subjects Of Study non-Euclidean geometry • polytope
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Kingdon Clifford
British mathematician and philosopher
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Nathaniel Bliss
English astronomer
Rachel Cusk sits by a window in a gray short-sleeve sweater and dark pants, with buildings visible outside in Stockholm, Sweden.
Rachel Cusk
Canadian-born British author
Emma Raducanu
Emma Raducanu
British tennis player
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Malcolm Gladwell wearing glasses, a light blue shirt, and a dark blazer, looking at the camera with a neutral expression.
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian journalist and writer
Lord Beaverbrook, 1941.
Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
British politician and journalist
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Michael Smith
Canadian chemist
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Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
British publisher
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Patrick Anderson
Canadian poet
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Robert McKenzie
British political scientist
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Richard Bulkeley
British statesman
Heavysege, Charles
Charles Heavysege
British-Canadian poet
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

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