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082			_a514.09
100	1		_aRicheson, David S. _q(David Scott)
245	1	0	_aEuler's gem : _bthe polyhedron formula and the birth of topology / _cDavid S. Richeson.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2008.
300			_axii, 317 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
505	0	0	_aLeonhard 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.
590			_a15.51
650		0	_aTopology _xHistory
650		0	_aPolyhedra.
650		7	_aPopular Science and Mathematics. _2ukslc
650		7	_aHistory of mathematics _2thema
650		7	_aPopular science _2thema
650		7	_aTopology _2thema _98134
650		7	_aGeometry _2thema
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