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Mathematician and physicist known for his collaboration with Stephen J. Hawking in the field of quantum physics and relativity, as well as his contributions to mathematics, for which he was knighted. A professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford in England, he pursues an active interest in recreational math and a field of geometry known as tessellation, the covering of a surface with tiles of prescribed shapes.


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