Norman Johnson (mathematician)
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Norman Woodason Johnson (November 12, 1930 – July 13, 2017) was a
Early life and education
Norman Johnson was born on November 12, 1930 in Chicago. His father had a bookstore and published a local newspaper.[1]
Johnson earned his undergraduate mathematics degree in 1953 at
Career
In 1966, he enumerated 92 convex non-uniform polyhedra with regular faces. Victor Zalgaller later proved (1969) that Johnson's list was complete, and the set is now known as the Johnson solids.[3][4]
Johnson is also credited with naming all the
Death and final works
He completed final edits for his book Geometries and Transformations just before his death on July 13, 2017, and nearly completed his manuscript on uniform polytopes.[1]
Works
- ———— (1960-05-01). "A Geometric Model for the Generalized Symmetric Group". S2CID 124822323.
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- ———— (January 1966). "Convex polyhedra with regular faces". Zbl 0132.14603.
- ———— (1966). The theory of uniform polytopes and honeycombs (PhD thesis). OL 14849556M. Archived from the originalon 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ———— (December 1969). "Euclidean Geometry and Convexity by Russell V. Benson (review)". JSTOR 2317227.
- ———— (January 1981). "Absolute Polarities and Central Inversions". In Davis, C.; ISBN 978-1-4612-5648-9.
- ————; Weiss, Asia Ivić (July 1999). "Quaternionic modular groups". .
- ————; Weiss, Asia Ivić (December 1999). "Quadratic Integers and Coxeter Groups". S2CID 111383205.
- ————; S2CID 123105209.
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- ———— (2012). "Regular Inversive Polytopes". In Deza, Michel; Petitjean, Michel; Markov, Krassimir (eds.). Mathematics of Distances and Applications. Sofia: ITHEA. Archived from the original on 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ———— (2018-06-07). Geometries and Transformations. OL 27839953M. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
References
- ^ from the original on 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Norman Johnson '53". Carleton College. 2017-07-18. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Hart, George W. "Johnson solids". George W. Hart. Archived from the original on 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Johnson Solid". MathWorld. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
- MR 0730208.
External links
- Norman W. Johnson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Norman W. Johnson Endowed Fund in Mathematics and Computer Science at Wheaton College
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