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008			080410s2008 njuabc sb 001 0 eng d
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020			_z9780691126777 (alk. paper)
020			_z0691126771 (alk. paper)
020			_z9781400838561 (e-book)
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035			_a(OCoLC)753980256
050	1	4	_aQA611.A3 _bR53 2008eb
082	0	4	_a514.09 _222
100	1		_aRicheson, David S. _q(David Scott)
245	1	0	_aEuler's gem _h[electronic resource] : _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, ports.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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 K�onigsberg -- 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 Poincar�e and th ascendance of topology -- The million-dollar question.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aTopology _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolyhedra.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aebrary, Inc.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10480678 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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