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John Flinders Petrie (April 26, 1907 – 1972) was an English mathematician. He met the geometer Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter as a student, beginning a lifelong friendship. They collaborated in discovering infinite warped polyhedra and (finite) warped polyhedra in the fourth dimension, analogous to the previous ones.
John Flinders Petrie became a noted mathematician, who gave his name to the Petrie polygon. Legacy Scientific excavation methods. Flinders Petrie's painstaking recording and study of artefacts set new standards in archaeology. He wrote: "I believe the true line of research lies in the noting and comparison of the smallest details."
10. Juli 2021 · John Flinders Petrie (1907-1972) was the only son of Egyptologist Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie. He was born in 1907 and as a schoolboy showed remarkable promise of mathematical ability.
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie war ein bekannter britischer Ägyptologe. Der üblicherweise verwendete Name ist Flinders Petrie.
28. März 2012 · Documentary about English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. Ancient Egypt was vandalised by tomb raiders until one Victorian maverick pioneered modern field archaeology.
30. Mai 2024 · Sir Flinders Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made possible the reconstruction of history from the remains of ancient cultures. He was knighted in 1923.
29. Apr. 2020 · Petrie was born in England in 1863. Like many scholars of the 19th century, he lacked any sort of formal education and the education he had ended at the age of 10. However, he read voraciously and taught himself subjects such as chemistry. His father taught him how to do surveying, with the pair surveying Stonehenge in six days.
