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Author Richeson, David S. (David Scott)

Title Euler's gem : the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology / David S. Richeson.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  QA611.A3 R53 2008    Available  ---
Description xii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Topology -- History.
Topology.
History.
Polyhedra.
Polyhedra.
ISBN 9780691126777 alkaline paper
0691126771 alkaline paper