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Driven 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 mathematicians who promoted a more algebraic and austere approach.
His essential contributions include the famed Coxeter groups and Coxeter diagrams, tools developed through his deep understanding of mathematical symmetry.
Virginia Woolf famously wrote in “A Room of One’s Own” that “it is necessary to have 500 a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.”
Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move.
What is it that fascinates us about the writer’s room? This book takes readers inside literature’s creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question.
