John Flinders Petrie
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British mathematician
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Why Is John Flinders Petrie Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Flinders Petrie was an English mathematician. He met the geometer Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter as a student, beginning a lifelong friendship. They collaborated in discovering infinite warped polyhedra and warped polyhedra in the fourth dimension, analogous to the previous ones. In addition to being the first to realize the importance of the warped polygon that now bears his name, his skills as a draftsperson are still appreciated.
