• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: Euler's gem : the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology
  • Enthält: 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.
  • Beteiligte: Richeson, David S. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton University Press, 2008
  • Umfang: XII, 317 S.; Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0691126771; 9780691126777
  • RVK-Notation: SG 590 : Geschichte einzelner Probleme
  • Schlagwörter: Polyeder > Topologie > Geschichte
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP

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