King of Infinite Space
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Read on Hacker NewsDid anybody read _King of Infinite Space_, the biography of Donald Coxeter? I noticed the article used lots of drawings, and I believe this and the general discussion fits into Coxeter's thinking on mathematics, versus the Bourbaki school's more rigid and less intuitive approach. "GEOMETRY. Isolated from the rest of the curriculum, this course will raise the hopes of students who wish to engage in meaningful mathematical activity, and then dash them."
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