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

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) was a Dutch

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known for his work on regular polytopes and

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. 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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References

* 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 1913 deaths Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Zaanstad Delft University of Technology alumni {{Europe-mathematician-stub