Alicia Boole Stott

Alicia Boole Stott ( born Alicia Boole, born June 8, 1860 in Cork, Ireland, † December 17, 1940 in England) was a British mathematician.

Alicia Boole was born as the third daughter of the mathematician George Boole, but he died when she was four years old. Then you grew up with her maternal grandmother and her great uncle in Cork. At age 12, she came to her mother and four sisters to London, where they lived under poor conditions. From 1886 she worked as a secretary at Liverpool. In 1890 she married insurance agent Walter Stott, with whom she had two children.

Stott had no formal education in mathematics (but she learned from her mother, the school teacher, Mary Everest Boole ( 1832-1916 ) ), but had an early age a remarkable spatial imagination. She discovered when she 18 years old with a wooden construction kit " played " all six regular polytopes ( a word they introduced ) in four dimensions ranging from 5, 16, or 600 tetrahedra, 8 cubes, 24 octahedra or 120 dodecahedra as " faces " are limited. She constructed geometrically ( analytic geometry had not learned ) their projections into three dimensions and exhibited card models of these projections ago. In 1895 she came into contact with the Dutch mathematician Pieter Schoute of the University of Groningen, who also worked on polyhedra, she visited and persuaded them to publish their results. 1900 and 1910 she published six works in Amsterdam, some with Schoute. In a work of 1910, she was one of the first on all 45 semiregular polytopes. A year after the death of Schoute it was (on the 300 - year celebration of the University ) 1914 honorary doctor of the University of Groningen, which also exhibited their geometric models. After that, she seems to have not worked mathematically until they from 1930 until her death again with HSM Coxeter, then initially still a student at Cambridge, worked.

She is the aunt of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Hydrodynamikers.

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