- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 317 p.) : ill., maps.
- Uniform Title
- Euler's gem (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Euler's gem (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2008062108
- OCLC
- ssj0000536420
- Author
Richeson, David S. (David Scott)
- Title
Euler's gem [electronic resource] : the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology / David S. Richeson.
- Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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