Deodands: Turing's Letter To Coxeter This quote comes from a paper of the wonderful donald coxeter, who quotes it atthe beginning of a paper on (from memory) some of the numbertheoretic http://www.swintons.net/deodands/archives/000111.html
Extractions: Turing, Fibonacci phyllotaxis, neutron teaspoons and me Main February 03, 2005 Turing Scott Hotton kindly pointed out this Turing quotation: According to the theory I am working on now there is a continuous advance from one pair of parastichy numbers to another, during the growth of a single plant ... You will be inclined to ask how one can move continuously from one integer to another. The reason is this - on any specimen there are different ways in which the parastichy numbers can be reckoned; some are more natural than others. During the growth of a plant the various parastichy numbers come into prominence at different stages. One can also observe the phenomenon in space (instead of in time) on a sunflower. It is natural to count the outermost florets as say 21+34, but the inner ones might be counted as 8+13. Church is hopelessly confused about it all, and I don't know any really satisfactory account, though I hope to get myself one in about a years time. (From Coxeter (1972)) This quote comes from a paper of the wonderful Donald Coxeter , who quotes it at the beginning of a paper on (from memory) some of the number-theoretic properties of Fibonacci lattices. He died at 96. (Irritating for me because that was two weeks before I heard of this quote and tired to contact him, but no doubt more irritating for him).
H. S. M. Coxeter -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article Harold Scott Macdonald donald coxeter (February 9, 1907 March 31, 2003) isregarded as one of the great (A mathematician specializing in geometry) http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/h/h/h._s._m._coxeter.htm
Extractions: Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (February 9, 1907 - March 31, 2003) is regarded as one of the great (A mathematician specializing in geometry) geometers of the (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century . He was born in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London but spent most of his life in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada He worked for 60 years at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Toronto) University of Toronto and published twelve books. He was most noted for his work on regular (Click link for more info and facts about polytope) polytope s and higher-dimensional geometries. He met (Click link for more info and facts about Maurits Escher) Maurits Escher and his work on geometric figures helped inspire some of Escher's works. He also inspired some of the innovations of
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Art Wars, April 7, 2003 donald coxeter Dies Leader in Geometry. By Martin Weil donald coxeter, 96,a mathematician who was one of the 20th century s foremost specialists in http://log24.com/log03/0405.htm
Extractions: The Non-Euclidean Revolution From a website titled simply Sinatra "Then came From Here to Eternity . Sinatra lobbied hard for the role, practically getting on his knees to secure the role of the street smart punk G.I. Maggio. He sensed this was a role that could revive his career, and his instincts were right. There are lots of stories about how Columbia Studio head Harry Cohn was convinced to give the role to Sinatra, the most famous of which is expanded upon in the horse's head sequence in The Godfather . Maybe no one will know the truth about that. The one truth we do know is that the feisty New Jersey actor won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his work in From Here to Eternity . It was no looking back from then on." From a note on geometry of April 28, 1985:
Banff Crag & Canyon, Banff, AB longtime University of Toronto professor donald coxeter had a vast influence on Roberts investigation into coxeters life traces his early years in http://www.banffcragandcanyon.com/story.php?id=174919
Banff Centre Media Release Banff Centre highlights the life of mathematics genius donald coxeter High resolution, downloadable photo of donald coxeter http://www.banffcentre.ca/media_room/media_releases/2005/0721_donald_coxeter.htm
Extractions: Max Bell Auditorium, The Banff Centre , Free A hero in the rarefied circles of pure geometry, long-time University of Toronto professor Donald Coxeter had a vast influence on the mathematics, art, and science of the 20 th century. His work inspired the intricate Circle Limit drawings of M.C. Escher, and the finely balanced design of Buckminster Fullers geodesic domes. As a pure mathematician, Coxeter was driven by the beauty of symmetry, but his work found inadvertent application in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the carbon 60 molecule and string theory. Known as the man who almost single-handedly rescued classical geometry from its near extinction, Coxeters life is the subject of a public talk by Canadian journalist Siobhan Roberts July 31 at The Banff Centre. A National Magazine Award-winning writer, Roberts has been working on a biography of Coxeter, which she began researching and writing before his death in 2003. She will present
Festival1 Honorary member of the Symmetry Society, HSM (donald) coxeter passed away onMarch 31. As a commemoration his presentation is to be read. http://www.conferences.hu/symmetry2003/festival1.html
Extractions: Budapest hosted first the Symposium and Exhibition series Symmetry of Structure in 1989. That was the birth of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry ( ISIS-Symmetry ), start of the journal Symmetry: Culture and Science (published 1990-), and of the formation of local Symmetry Circles in several cities around the world. Similar, widely attended events followed in Japan, the U.S.A., and in Israel. The investigation and conscious application of symmetry shaped a movement bringing together hundreds of artists, scientists, designers and engineers. 14 years later it is time to return to the origins in Europe.
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Extractions: Officer's of the 60th Royal American Regiment of Foot 60th Royal American Regiment of Foot Captain-Lt.: Alexander Mcbean, Peter Von Ingen, Lewis Ourry, Simeon Ecuyier. Lieutenant: Ensign: Chaplin: Thomas Gawton, W. Nicholfon Jackfon, John Ogilivie, Micheal Schlaetler. Adujant: Thomas Batnfley, James Herring, Patrick McAlpin, Edward Barron. Quartermaster: Donald Campbell, John Dowe, John Peter Rochat, Francis Hutchinfon. Surgeon: *Note the different spellings from other documents. Also note how many Officers with Francis as their first name in the 60th. Source: British Army List of 1761. Public Records Office, London, England. MORE TO COME Click here to come back to our Home Page.
1980 Centre row Luc Teirlinck, Brian Wilson, Mario Marchi, Eric Lander, Rien coxeter,donald coxeter, Hanfried Lenz. Front row Jef Thas, Frank De Clerck, http://www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/Staff/JWPH/PERSONAL/photos80.html
Extractions: From the 1980 Isle of Thorns Conference on Finite Geometries and Designs Back row : Ron Graham, Arnold Neumaier, Arjeh Cohen, Richard Weiss, David Glynn, Thomas Beth, JWPH, Jan Saxl, Ernie Shult, Mark Ronan, Norman Biggs, Mike Ganley, W.L. Edge Centre row : Luc Teirlinck, Brian Wilson, Mario Marchi, Eric Lander, Rien Coxeter, Donald Coxeter, Hanfried Lenz Front row : Jef Thas, Frank De Clerck, Stan Payne, Udo Ott, Marshall Hall, Marlene Willems, Wilhelm Haemers, Dina Ghinelli Seated : Kourosh Sadeh [ Back to JWPH's home page. ]
About Planes And Distance To A Plane donald coxeter, Introduction to Geometry (2nd Edition), Sect 12.4 Planes andHyperplanes , John Wiley Sons (1989a). donald coxeter, Introduction to http://softsurfer.com/Archive/algorithm_0104/algorithm_0104.htm
Extractions: Distance of a Point to a Plane by Dan Sunday About Planes Plane Equations Computing Parametric Coordinates Distance of a Point to a Plane ... References Here we present basic information about representing planes, and how to compute the distance of a point to a plane. This will be used in algorithms about the Intersections of Lines, Segments and Planes. A surface is that which has length and breadth only. [Book I, Definition 5]
The Institute For Figuring // Online Exhibit: Hyperbolic Space has entered the artistic lexicon through the work of the Dutch artist MCEscher, who was introduced to the concept by the great geometer donald coxeter. http://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1c.html
CBC Radio Quirks Quarks April 05, 2003 donald coxeter from Scientists.ca. Dinosaur Cannibals. Listen to an mp3 of thistopic or download the Ogg file. (what s ogg?) http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/02-03/apr05.html
IDEAS December 1998 Calendar A tribute to donald coxeter, the greatest geometer of the 20th century, A true artist in mind and body, donald coxeter has profoundly influenced http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/calendar/1998/98dec.html
The Globe And Mail Siobhan Roberts is a Toronto writer whose biography of donald coxeter will bepublished by Penguin in 2005. He s got game http://www.mathcamp.org/GlobeandMail.htm
Extractions: E-mail this Article Print this Article Advertisement Those campers who have made it out of bed shovel scrambled eggs down the hatch one, seeking optimal efficiency, lowers his mouth to the same horizontal plane as his plate and another day at Mathcamp has begun. In fact, though, there are a few curbs on nocturnal activity. By 10 p.m., campers must sign in to the common room, which by that hour, in the middle of summer, is a hotbed not only of number theory but of very odorous teenagers sweating themselves silly at killer table tennis, chess and Rock Paper Scissors. Campers have to be out of the halls by midnight, but they can gather in their dorm rooms to do what they wish ad infinitum, or at least to the limits of honest computation.
Luboš Motl's Reference Frame: Rich Aliens From Strings Yesterday, Canada was told that the work of donald coxeter from Toronto foundapplications in the Nobelprize-winning carbon 60 molecule and string theory. http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/07/rich-aliens-from-strings.html
Extractions: What does this mean? BlogThis! The most important events in our and your superstringy Universe as seen from Luboš Motl's reference frame Totday, the India Daily Technology Team has informed the large Asian country that Actually, this sentence is the title. Rich aliens seem to be one of the first practical application of string theory; they may live in a new kind of landscape. ;-) Their existence has also been shown by "rich spectroscopy at the Large Hadron Collider" , our Indian colleagues argue and demonstrate it by a photograph of a fully operational collider. After the
Newsletter Item ERRATUM. donald coxeter died on 31 March 2003, not 7 April as stated on page 3of the May Newsletter. Back to top LMS Site Contents http://www.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/0306/obituaries.html
From Kaleidoscopes To Soccer Balls The worlds of mathematics and art lost a great mind when donald coxeter, said tobe the greatest classical geometer of his generation, died on 31 March 2003 http://plus.maths.org/issue25/news/coxeter/
Extractions: Fractal geometry can identify Jackson Pollock's paintings Plus... more news from the world of maths Explore the news archive Subscribe to our free newsletter Get the ... posters! News The worlds of mathematics and art lost a great mind when Donald Coxeter , said to be the greatest classical geometer of his generation, died on 31 March 2003 in Toronto, Canada, aged 96. Coxeter was fascinated by mathematics and art from a young age. He excelled at music, composing an opera when he was just 12, but was diverted from a career in composition to one in mathematics by his appreciation of the beauty of symmetry. He studied at the University of Cambridge and continued there as a research fellow until moving to Canada in 1936 to work at the
