| 청구기호 |
QA611.A3 R53 2008 |
| 형태사항 |
xii, 317 p. : ill., maps, ports.
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| 언어 |
English |
| 서지주기 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| 내용 |
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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| 주제 |
Topology --History.
Polyhedra.
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| ISBN |
9780691126777 (alk. paper)
, 0691126771 (alk. paper)
, 9781400838561 (e-book)
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