# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-colin-shephard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:31:22.304Z

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name: "Geoffrey Colin Shephard"
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description: "Geoffrey Colin Shephard was a British mathematician who worked on convex geometry and reflection groups. He asked Shephard's problem on the volumes of projected convex bodies, posed another problem on polyhedral nets, proved the Shephard–Todd theorem in invariant theory of finite groups, began the study of complex polytopes, and classified the complex reflection groups."
tagline: "British mathematician (1927-2016)"
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birthDate: "1927-08-16"
deathDate: "2016-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump