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Philosophia Mathematica Advance Access originally published online on April 25, 2007
Philosophia Mathematica 2007 15(3):386-388; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkm019
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Book Review

SIOBHAN ROBERTS. King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry

James Robert Brown*

* Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A2, Canada

Correspondence: jrbrown@chass.utoronto.ca

Siobhan Roberts. King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry. Toronto: Anansi, 2006. ISBN 0-88784-201-1. Pp. xv + 399

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Donald Coxeter died in 2003, at a ripe old age of 96. Though I had regularly seen him at mathematics talks in Toronto for over twenty years, I never felt rushed to seek him out. It seemed he would go on forever. His death left me regretting my missed opportunity and Siobhan Robert's excellent book makes me regret it even more. Like any good biography of an intellectual, King of Infinite Space contains personal details and mathematical achievements in some detail. Thus, we learn of the traumatic effects on Coxeter of his parents' divorce, his search for a spouse, his vegetarianism, and his progressive politics. We also learn . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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