Geoffrey Colin Shephard
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Geoffrey Colin Shephard was a British mathematician who worked on convex geometry and reflection groups.
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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.
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Lived 1927 to 2016 · aged 88
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