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Explorations in topology : map coloring, surfaces, and knots /

書目詳細資料
主要作者: Gay, David
格式: Printed Book
語言:English
出版: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007.
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在線閱讀:Table of contents only
Publisher description
書本目錄:
  • Acme does maps and considers coloring them
  • Acme adds tours
  • Acme collects data from maps
  • Acme collects more data, proves a theorem, and returns to coloring maps
  • Acme's solicitor proves a theorem: the four-color conjecture
  • Acme adds doughnuts to its repertoire
  • Acme considers the Möbius strip
  • Acme creates new worlds: Klein bottles and other surfaces
  • Acme makes order out of chaos: surface sums and Euler numbers
  • Acme classifies surfaces
  • Acme encounters the fourth dimension
  • Acme colors maps on surfaces: Heawood's estimate
  • Acme gets all tied up with knots
  • Where to go from here: projects.