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|a QA611.A3
|b RIC 2008
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|a Richeson
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|a Euler's gem :
|b the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology
|c David S. Richeson.
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|a Princeton, N.J.:
|b Princeton University Press,
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|b ill., maps;
|c 24 cm.
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|a 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 Kn̲igsberg -- Cauchy's flattened polyhedra -- Planar graphs, geoboards, and brussels sprouts -- It's a<U+000d><U+000a> 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 Poincar ̌and th ascendance of topology -- The million-dollar question
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|a FAS
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index
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|a Topology --
|x History
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|a Polyhedra
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