H.S.M. Coxeter. 1907-2003. The twentieth century's preeminent classical geometer and mathematician of polyhedra

"Geometry is perhaps the most elementary of the sciences that enable man, by purely intellectual processes, to make predictions (based on observation) about physical world. The power of geometry, in the sense of accuracy and utility of these deductions, is impressive, and has been a powerful motivation for the study of logic in geometry."

H.S.M. Coxeter: Unveiling Geometric Wonderlands and the Enduring Legacy of a Platonist Mathematician

"I’m a Platonist - a follower of Plato - who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts are right there waiting to be discovered."



"In our times, geometers are still exploring those new Wonderlands, partly for the sake of their applications to cosmology and other branches of science, but much more for the sheer joy of passing through the looking glass into a land where the familiar lines, planes, triangles, circles and spheres are seen to behave in strange but precisely determined ways."