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020 _z9780691126777 (alk. paper)
020 _z0691126771 (alk. paper)
020 _z9781400838561 (e-book)
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035 _a(OCoLC)753980256
050 1 4 _aQA611.A3
_bR53 2008eb
082 0 4 _a514.09
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100 1 _aRicheson, David S.
_q(David Scott)
245 1 0 _aEuler's gem
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe polyhedron formula and the birth of topology /
_cDavid S. Richeson.
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axii, 317 p. :
_bill., maps, ports.
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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTopology
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPolyhedra.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _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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_cEBK
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