Siobhan Roberts

Canadian science journalist and biographer, author of The Man Who Saved Geometry (published as King of Infinite Space, 2006), the life of geometer H. S. M. Coxeter.

Roberts writes narrative non-fiction about mathematics and its people. Her Coxeter biography tells the story of how one geometer defended classical, visual geometry — polytopes, symmetry, and physical models — through the decades when abstraction dominated mathematics, and traces Coxeter's wide influence across art, science, and design. She has also written on mathematician John Horton Conway.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Roberts is a science biographer whose subject, Coxeter, embodies the geometric tradition adjacent to Fuller's. Her book is the corpus's window onto the human story of modern geometry that runs parallel to Fuller's own geometric project.

See Also

• The Man Who Saved Geometry (The Man Who Saved Geometry) — the biography she wrote
• H. S. M. Coxeter (H. S. M. Coxeter) — her subject

Sources

• The Man Who Saved Geometry (source reference) — the work attributing authorship