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050	0	0	_aQA611.A3 _bR53 2008
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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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) 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 KoÌnigsberg -- 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 PoincareÌ and the ascendance of topology -- The million-dollar question.
650		0	_aTopology _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolyhedra.
856	4	2	_zContributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008062108-b.html
856	4	2	_zPublisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008062108-d.html
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