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The Man Who Saved Geometry
2009 · Film · documentary · 54 min
Directed by David New
The work of mathematician Donald Coxeter, who continued in the study of geometry when it was being put aside in favour of algebra. An inspiration to both M.C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller.
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There is similar anecdote in the documentary The man who saved geometry[1] about the life of the famous geometer Coxeder.
The Bourbake school was in a response to the disaster of the Italian school of algebraic topology which put a lot of focus on rigor and formal proofs vs the hand waving Italians.
They where good in reforging existing proofs but when it came to imagining new ideas it where the visual and experimental mathematicians who kept pushing the needle forward.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZEPzb3JY0