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Siobhan Roberts
How the father of wind engineering helped make the world's most amazing buildings and bridges possibleWith Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how win
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Siobhan Roberts
A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclastA mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (1937–2020) possessed a rock star's charisma, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and a sly sense of humor. Conway found fame a
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Siobhan Roberts
An illuminating biography of one of the greatest geometers of the twentieth centuryDriven by a profound love of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907–2003) preserved the tradition of classical geometry when it was under attack by influential
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Siobhan Roberts
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The Mathematical Intelligencer. 43:2-2
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Siobhan Roberts
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The Prime Number Conspiracy ISBN: 9780262350549
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11910.003.0033
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11910.003.0033
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Siobhan Roberts
Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.“A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast.” --James Gleick, author of The Information John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with
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Asia Ivić Weiss, Siobhan Roberts
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Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 41:943-960
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Siobhan Roberts, Asia Ivić Weiss
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52:45-66
Donald Coxeter was the twentieth century's greatest classical geometer and the leading authority on polytopes. His Coxeter groups, deepening the investigation of symmetries, have found wide application in the sciences.