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020 | _z9780691126777 (alk. paper) | ||
020 | _z0691126771 (alk. paper) | ||
020 | _z9781400838561 (e-book) | ||
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_aRicheson, David S. _q(David Scott) |
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_aEuler's gem _h[electronic resource] : _bthe polyhedron formula and the birth of topology / _cDavid S. Richeson. |
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_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2008. |
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_axii, 317 p. : _bill., maps, ports. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aLeonhard 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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_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. |
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_aTopology _xHistory. |
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650 | 0 | _aPolyhedra. | |
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_aElectronic books. _2local |
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_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10480678 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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