Norman Johnson
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Norman Lloyd Johnson was born in Ilford, Essex, England, in 1917. He was a mathematician at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1966 with a dissertation title of The Theory Of Uniform Polytopes And Honeycombs, his thesis advisor being the famous H. S. M. Coxeter
He was one of the participants in the Uniform Polychora Project, which is an attempt to name higher-dimensional polychora. In his 1966 doctoral thesis Norman discovered a small regiment of three uniform antiprism-like star-polychora named the Johnson antiprisms.
Works
- Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups
- Mostly Finite Geometries ISBN 0-8247-0035-X
External link
- Norman L. Johnson (http://www.stat.unc.edu/faculty/johnson.html)