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100 1  Richeson, David S.|q(David Scott)|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/no2008136462 
245 10 Euler's gem :|bthe polyhedron formula and the birth of 
       topology /|cDavid S. Richeson. 
264  1 Princeton, N.J. :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2008] 
264  4 |c©2008 
300    xii, 317 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and 
       index. 
505 0  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 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. 
650  0 Topology|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85136089|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh99005024 
650  0 Polyhedra.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85104647 
650  7 Topology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1152692 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Polyhedra.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1070511 
856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
       /catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008062108-b.html 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
       enhancements/fy0834/2008062108-d.html 
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