Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940)[1] ...
wikipedia - 11 Mar 2021Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940)[1] was an Irish-born English mathematician. Despite never holding an academic position, she made a number of valuable contributions to the field, receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen.[2] She is best known for coining the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four (or more) dimensions, and having an impressive grasp of four-dimensional geometry from a very early age.[2]
