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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.
- 1907
- Son of Flinders Petrie and Hilda Petrie
- 1972 (64-65)
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28. März 2012 · Documentary about English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. Ancient Egypt was vandalised by tomb raiders until one Victorian maverick pioneered modern field archaeology.
- Deborah Perkin
- November 9, 2032
- Christina Macaulay
- November 9, 2022
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie war ein bekannter britischer Ägyptologe. Der üblicherweise verwendete Name ist Flinders Petrie.
Vor 6 Tagen · 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.
1. Aug. 2012 · More than a hundred people gathered in Jerusalem to remember Sir Flinders Petrie, one of the fathers of modern archaeology, in the lovely, little-known cemetery on Mt. Zion where most of him...
