Named in honour of Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter (b.1907- ), an English-Canadian mathematician and former professor at the University of Toronto. He has been a prolific writer on intuitively simple geometric problems, such as the classification of polytopes and the tiling of the plane with convex polygons. More info.
Orbit type: Main Belt
Reference: MPC 42367
Name:
Coxeter
Number:
18560
Designation:
1997 EO7
Disc. Date:
1997-03-07
Discoverer:
Comba, P.G.
Disc. Place:
Prescott