Pieter Hendrik Schoute (21 January 1846, Wormerveer – 18 April 1913,

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

) was a Dutch mathematician known for his work on

regular polytope In mathematics, a regular polytope is a polytope whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags, thus giving it the highest degree of symmetry. All its elements or -faces (for all , where is the dimension of the polytope) — cells, ...

s and Euclidean geometry. He started his career as a civil engineer, but became a professor of mathematics at Groningen and published some thirty papers on polytopes between 1878 and his death in 1913. He collaborated with Alicia Boole Stott on describing the sections of the regular 4-polytopes. In 1886, he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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* Pieter Hendrik Schoute, ''Analytical treatment of the polytopes regularly derived from the regular polytopes.'', 1911, published by J. Muller in Amsterdam, Written in English. - 82 pages *

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* * 19th-century Dutch mathematicians 20th-century Dutch mathematicians Geometers 1846 births 1923 deaths Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Zaanstad Delft University of Technology alumni {{Europe-mathematician-stub