Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller (31 August 1906 – 24 April 1981) was an English mathematician and computing pioneer.
He worked in number theory and on geometry, particularly polyhedra, where Miller's monster is a nickname of the great dirhombicosidodecahedron.
This led to an algorithm for computing certain solutions of the equation which required only a scant knowledge of their pointwise values.
The 1938 book on the fifty-nine icosahedra resulted, written by Coxeter and Patrick du Val.
[12] Miller was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1929; his obituary in the Society's journal noted his early interest and work in astronomy – including papers on the effect of distribution of density on the period of pulsation in a star, and on the effect of opacity in the point-source stellar model – and observed that, "but for a serious illness that interrupted his university postgraduate years, there is little doubt that [he] would have continued to work in the field of astronomy and would have made notable contributions to it.