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December 17, 1940
Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (born 1860)

Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia Boole Stott was a British mathematician. She made a number of contributions to the field and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen. She grasped four-dimensional geometry from an early age, and introduced the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four or more dimensions.