John Flinders Petrie (April 26, 1907 – 1972) was an English mathematician. He met the geometer Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter as a student, beginning a...
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William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA ((1853-06-03)3 June 1853 – (1942-07-28)28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British...
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different surface, called the Petrie dual. John Flinders Petrie (1907–1972) was the son of Egyptologists Hilda and Flinders Petrie. He was born in 1907 and...
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Hilda Mary Isabel, Lady Petrie (née Urlin; 1871–1957), was an Irish-born British Egyptologist and wife of Sir Flinders Petrie, the father of scientific...
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(1995). Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology (2nd ed.). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-14624-3. Petrie, W. M. Flinders (1932)...
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Skew apeirohedron (redirect from Coxeter-Petrie polyhedron)
sometimes called a partial honeycomb. According to Coxeter, in 1926 John Flinders Petrie generalized the concept of regular skew polygons (nonplanar polygons)...
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School, Harpenden, where his best friend was John Flinders Petrie, later a mathematician for whom Petrie polygons were named. He was accepted at King's...
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The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra (section Petrie)
whether these were made by Flather or by Miller's later students. John Flinders Petrie was a lifelong friend of Coxeter and had a remarkable ability to...
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Regular skew apeirohedron (redirect from Petrie-Coxeter polyhedron)
either skew regular faces or skew regular vertex figures. In 1926 John Flinders Petrie took the concept of a regular skew polygons, polygons whose vertices...
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the ancient Egyptians. Archaeological excavation, initially by Sir Flinders Petrie, revealed ancient mining camps and a long-lived Temple of Hathor, the...
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Society of Arts on 6 February 1850. Petrie married on 2 August 1851 Anne Flinders, only child of Matthew Flinders. She was a linguist, and studied Egyptology...
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in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE. Discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896, it is now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...
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Britain in 1803, Flinders was arrested by the French governor at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the...
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Kahun Papyri (redirect from Petrie Papyri)
mathematical and medical topics. Its many fragments were discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1889 and are kept at the University College London. This collection...
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cricketer Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), English Egyptologist Geoff Petrie (born 1948), American basketball player and executive George Petrie (disambiguation)...
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Archives The Meidum Pyramid was excavated by John Shae Perring in 1837, Lepsius in 1843 and then by Flinders Petrie later in the nineteenth century, who located...
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Archaeology and racism (section Flinders Petrie)
Silverberg, archaeologist Stephen Williams, and author Jason Colavito. Flinders Petrie worked closely with the scientific racists Francis Galton and Karl...
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characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1059. William Flinders Petrie, “Tanis II., Nebesheh, and Defenneh,” Memoir of the...
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are called regular skew apeirohedra. According to Coxeter, in 1926 John Flinders Petrie generalized the concept of regular skew polygons (nonplanar polygons)...
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The first person to excavate the site was archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie in 1894. Petrie was working for the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the Egypt Exploration...
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around 28,000 m2 (300,000 sq ft). After excavating the site in 1888, Flinders Petrie argued that the northernmost portion of the Labyrinth had been composed...
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the theory was dealt by the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose father was a believer. When Petrie went to Egypt in 1880 to perform new measurements...
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direction of Sir Flinders Petrie, who thought the site was ancient Gaza. He was accompanied by Olga Tufnell. One of Flinders Petrie's discoveries were...
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ISBN 978-1-4073-0339-0. Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders (1883). The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. Field & Tuer. ISBN 0-7103-0709-8. Petrie, Flinders (1892). Medum...
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Daughter of the Dragon (category Films scored by John Leipold)
believing that Sir John Petrie was responsible for the death of his family during the Boxer Rebellion. He swore revenge on Sir John and his family. Princess...
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that he had found all that Herakleopolis had to offer. His friend Sir Flinders Petrie, on the other hand, “...in 1879 suspected that the region already cleared...
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Main Range National Park Booroongapah, Flinders Peak, Flinders Peak Group Ginginbaar, Mount Blaine, Flinders Peak Group Multuggerah, 19th-century warrior...
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of Flinders Petrie. Petrie, W M Flinders; Hilda Petrie, Lady; Drower, Margaret S (2004), Letters from the desert : the correspondence of Flinders and...
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building pyramids in water, the British Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie hypothesizes that Herodotus wrote of these statues during a time that...
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Sussex. He originally trained as an archaeologist, he worked with Sir Flinders Petrie in the Middle East. He was the author of three books on Shakespeare...
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