Euler's gem the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology /
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Euler's gem |h [electronic resource] : |b the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology / |c David S. Richeson. |
| 260 | |a Princeton, N.J. : |b Princeton University Press, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 317 p. : |b ill., maps, ports. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Topology |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Polyhedra. | |
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