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Geoffrey Colin Shephard is a mathematician who works 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.
Shephard earned his Ph.D. in 1954 from
Queens' College, Cambridge, under the supervision of
J. A. Todd.
[1] He was a professor of mathematics at the
University of East Anglia until his retirement.
[2]
Selected publications
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Grünbaum, Branko; Shephard, Geoffrey Colin (1987),
Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman,
ISBN
978-0-7167-1193-3,
MR
0857454
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McMullen, Peter; Shephard, Geoffrey Colin (1971),
Convex Polytopes and the Upper Bound Conjecture,
Cambridge University Press,
ISBN
978-0-521-08017-0,
MR
0301635
- Shephard, Geoffrey Colin (1972),
Queens' College Dial: A Short Description of the Sun-dial in Queens' College, Cambridge, Self-published,
ISBN
978-0-9503358-0-3
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