Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940) was an Irish-English mathematician. Despite never holding an academic position, she made a number of valuable contributions to the field, receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. She is best known for coining the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four (or more) dimensions, and having an impressive grasp of four-dimensional geometry from a very early age.
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8 June 1860 Cork, Ireland
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17 December 1940 (aged 80) England
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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