Plane Patterns - Mathematics And The Liberal Arts discovery is certainly a mathematical accomplishment of the first magnitude. Alsosee the erratum, Crowe, donald W., Erratum Reviewer HSM coxeter.) SC 01A15 http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/PlanePatterns.html
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H.S.M. Coxeter Mathematician's Portrait Professor Emeritus H.S.M. coxeter. Prof. coxeter celebrates 60 years at the University of Toronto. Professor Emeritus H.S.M. coxeter. B.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., D. Math, FRS, FRSC. H.S.M. http://www.math.toronto.edu/~coxeter
Extractions: B.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., D. Math, FRS, FRSC H.S.M. Coxeter was born and educated in England, but his professional connections with North America began early. Shortly after finishing his doctoral studies at Cambridge University , and while he was a research fellow there, he spent two years as a research visitor at Princeton University . In 1936 he joined the Faculty of the University of Toronto, and despite numerous mathematical visits to centres around the world, has remained here ever since. Undoubtedly the world's best known geometer, Professor Coxeter has made contributions of fundamental importance to the Theory of Polytopes , Non-Euclidean geometry, Discrete Groups, and Combinatorial Theory, to name the areas of mathematical research for which he is best known. Endowed with artistic gifts himself, particularly in music, he gives to all mathematics that he touches an aura of beauty. He is equally at home lecturing to colleagues at an international research conference, or to gifted high school mathematics students. Along with a large and growing volume of research publications, his expository books and articles on geometry and on recreational mathematics are very popular. He is living proof that a great scholar can also be a great communicator. Numerous honours have come to Professor Coxeter in his long and illustrious career. He is a Fellow of both the
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SF, Posets, Coxeter, And Weyl The Home Page for SF, posets, and coxeter/weyl. John Stembridge s Maple packagesfor symmetric functions, posets, root systems, and finite coxeter groups. http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~jrs/maple.html
Extractions: Version 2.4 of coxeter and weyl is now available! The first updates for Maple 8 and 9 are in! If you'd rather go straight to the archive, here it is SF is a package of 24 Maple programs that provide an environment for computations involving symmetric functions and related structures, such as the characters of the symmetric groups. It has facilities for converting expressions from one symmetric function basis to another, for applying standard operations such as scalar products, inner tensor (or Kronecker) products, and plethysm. Beginning with Version 2.0, it has general facilities for adding user-defined bases to the environment, such as Hall-Littlewood functions, zonal polynomials, or Macdonald's two-parameter symmetric functions. Check out the archives of Jack symmetric functions up to degree 16 and q,t Kostka polynomials up to degree 10
H. S. M. Coxeter This book covers any geometry you could need and is by far the best, if not theonly, book out there with w Written by HSM coxeter , Samuel L. Greitzer http://mathematicsbooks.org/search_H._S._M._Coxeter/searchBy_Author.html
Extractions: This is a wonderful book. It isn't for mathematical beginners, but it isn't opaque either. It requires a student to think, experiment and to learn by puzzling things out in one's mind rather than simple memorization and regurgitation. Nor does it follow the all too common modern method of over simplifying things to allow people to pretend they have learned math while only dabbling in a few basic topics.This book is amply illustrated with many exercises (answers are provided at the back for al...
Coxeter Groups coxeter Groups. Cartan matrix corresponding to a given Dynkin diagram;Construction of a coxeter group from a root datum or Cartan matrix; http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/Features/node81.html
Coxeter Groups [HB34] coxeter Groups HB34. Cartan matrix corresponding to a given Dynkin diagram;Construction of a coxeter group from a root datum or Cartan matrix; http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/ReleaseNotes/rel28/node22.html
Extractions: Coxeter Groups [HB34] Finite Coxeter groups are implemented as a subclass of permutation groups so that they inherit all the operations for permutation groups as well as having many specialized functions. This module was implemented by Don Taylor and Scott Murray. Cartan matrix corresponding to a given Dynkin diagram Construction of a Coxeter group from a root datum or Cartan matrix Dynkin diagram of a Cartan matrix or Coxeter group Root datum for a Coxeter group Element as a reduced word in the standard generators Element of maximal length Unique long (short) root of greatest height Long word Short root of maximal height Reflections in Coxeter group Reflection subgroup Reduced representatives for cosets of the reflection subgroup Actions on roots and co-roots Coxeter group as a real reflection group Coxeter and parabolic subgroups; Transversals Braid group, pure braid group and Coxeter group presentation
John Robinson - Firmament Genesis Chapter 1 verse 6. On February 9th 1997, the late Professor DonaldCoxeter of the University of Toronto celebrated his 90th Birthday. http://www.cpm.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/sculpture/pages/5firm.html
Extractions: Genesis: Chapter 1: verse 6 On February 9th 1997, the late Professor Donald Coxeter of the University of Toronto celebrated his 90th Birthday. I was delighted that through the generosity of Robert A. Hefner III and Damon de Laszlo, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences placed my Symbolic Sculpture INTUITION outside their building to mark the day. (ADDED LATER: See the bottom of this page for links to obituaries for Professor Coxeter) When I met Donald he told me about a 'geometric progression' that he had discovered, where spheres were 'mutually tangent' (see Coxeter on 'Firmament ). He asked me if I thought it would be possible to use his findings in a sculpture, and explained that the radii of the spheres are, if the unit is a decimetre, 1.5cm, 2.8cm, 5.3cm, 10cm, 18.8cm, 35.5cm, 66.8cm. I could use only the first five spheres as numbers 6 and 7 in the sequence are too big to handle. I had the 5 spheres spun by a wood turner, and only when I put the jigsaw puzzle together was I able to see the miracle that Donald had perceived through his mathematical vision. I mounted the spheres on a vertical rod capped by a plane set at 23.5 degrees to the horizontal plane, and used an
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