%0 Book
%T Euler's gem the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology
%A Richeson, David S.
%I Princeton University Press
%@ 0691126771
%@ 9780691126777
%K Topology History
%K Polyhedra
%K Polyeder
%K Topologie
%K Geschichte
%D 2008
%X Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
%X Leonhard Euler and his three "great" friendsWhat 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.
%C Princeton University Press
%C Princeton, NJ [u.a.]
%U http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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