David Friedman’s Reviews > King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry > Status Update

finished editing the Budapest paper, he loved editing and was sorry to find no more errors, passed away, his cat Amy curled on his abdomen, at 96. mathematical appenices to follow.

proteins, protein lifetimes, flexibility vs rigidity, mad cow and alzheimers, immunology, auto-immune diseases, cystic fibrosis, Whitely, Korto.

buckminster fuller, hofstadter; coxeter keeps geometry alive and the 21st c acknowledges the need for visual thinking, 3d drawing

part i, biography, up to retirement (with preview of final public lecture at 90). on to part 2, the mathematics! (i hope)

Engaging. Nice portrait. Working backward from four tangent circles in Budapest. One of the more convincing accounts of the appeal of mathematics to its practitioners that I’ve encountered.