Euler's gem [electronic resource] : the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology / David S. Richeson.
By: Richeson, David S. (David Scott).
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BookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008Description: xii, 317 p. : ill., maps, ports.Subject(s): Topology -- History | PolyhedraGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 514.09 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 K�onigsberg -- 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 Poincar�e and th ascendance of topology -- The million-dollar question.
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