Euler's gem the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology /

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Hlavní autor: Richeson, David S. (David Scott)
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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  • Leonhard Euler and his three "great" friends
  • What is a polyhedron?
  • The five perfect bodies
  • The Pythagorean brotherhood and Plato's atomic theory
  • Euclid and his elements
  • Kepler's polyhedral universe
  • Euler's gem
  • Platonic solids, gold balls, Fullerenes, and geodesic domes
  • Scooped by Descartes?
  • Legendre gets it right
  • A stroll through Königsberg
  • Cauchy's flattened polyhedra
  • Planar graphs, geoboards, and brussels sprouts
  • It's a colorful world
  • New problems and new proofs
  • Rubber sheets, hollow doughnuts, and crazy bottles
  • Are they the same, or are they different?
  • A knotty problem
  • Combing the hair on a coconut
  • When topology controls geometry
  • The topology of curvy surfaces
  • Navigating in n dimensions
  • Henri Poincaré and th ascendance of topology
  • The million-dollar question.