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Pieter Hendrik Schoute

Dutch mathematician (1846–1913) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pieter Hendrik Schoute
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Pieter Hendrik Schoute (21 January 1846, Wormerveer 18 April 1913, Groningen) was a Dutch mathematician known for his work on regular polytopes and Euclidean geometry.

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Illustrations from Analytical treatment... (1911) with uniform tilings, Archimedean solids and a runcitruncated cubic honeycomb

He started his career as a civil engineer, but became a professor of mathematics at Groningen and published some thirty papers on polytopes between 1878 and his death in 1913.[1] He collaborated with Alicia Boole Stott on describing the sections of the regular 4-polytopes.[2]

In 1886, he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

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