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Title:
The coxeter legacy : reflections and projections
Publication Information:
Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, 2006
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x, 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780821837221

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30000010201092 QA177 C69 2006 Open Access Book Book
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Summary

Donald Coxeter infused enthusiasm, even passion, for mathematics in people of any age, any background, any profession, any walk of life. Enchanted by Euclidean geometry, he was interested in the beauty, the description, and the exploration of the world around us. His involvement in art and with artists earned him admiration and friends in the intellectual community all over the globe. Coxeter's devotion to polytopes and his interest in the theory of configurations live on in his students and followers.Coxeter groups arise in various subjects in applied mathematics, and they have a permanent place in some of the most demanding and fascinating branches of abstract mathematics, such as Lie algebras, algebraic groups, Chevalley groups, and Kac-Moody groups. This collection of articles by outstanding researchers and expositors is intended to capture the essence of the Coxeter legacy. It is a mixture of surveys, up-to-date information, history, storytelling, and personal memories; and it includes a rich variety of beautiful illustrations.


Table of Contents

The isomorphism problem for Coxeter groupsB. Muhlherr
Coxeter theory: The cognitive aspectsA. V. Borovik
From Galois and Lie to Tits buildingsM. Ronan
The Coxeter element and the branching law for the finite subgroups of $SU(2)$B. Kostant
Hyperbolic Coxeter groups and space formsR. Kellerhals
Regular and chiral polytopes in low dimensionsP. McMullen and E. Schulte
Polytopes, honeycombs, groups and graphsB. Monson and A. I. Weiss
Equivelar polyhedraJ. M. Wills
Combinatorics of sections of polytopes and Coxeter groups in Lobachevsky spacesA. Khovanskii
Donald and the golden rhombohedraM. Senechal
Configurations of points and linesB. Grunbaum
Meditations on Ceva's theoremJ. Richter-Gebert
Coxeter and the artists: Two-way inspirationD. Schattschneider
The visual mind: Art, mathematics and cinemaM. Emmer
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