John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset (16 October 1869[1] – December 1962) was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician.
[1] In 1900 he married Emily Florence Wood,[4] and they subsequently had two children, named Kathleen and John.
[5] According to H. S. M. Coxeter,[6] after obtaining his law degree in 1896 and having no clients, Gosset amused himself by attempting to classify the regular polytopes in higher-dimensional (greater than three) Euclidean space.
Glaisher was favourably impressed and passed the results on to William Burnside and Alfred Whitehead.
Burnside, however, stated in a letter to Glaisher in 1899 that "the author's method, a sort of geometric intuition" did not appeal to him.