Thorold Gosset

John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset (16 October 1869[1] – December 1962) was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher, and for his generalization of Descartes' theorem on tangent circles to four and higher dimensions.

  1. ^ "Gosset, John Herbert de Paz Thorold (GST888JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.