Euler's Gem (notice n° 1555078)
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| control field | FRCYB88838056 |
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| control field | 20251020123709.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 251020s2012 fr | o|||||0|0|||eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691126777 |
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| System control number | FRCYB88838056 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | FR-PaCSA |
| Language of cataloging | en |
| Transcribing agency | |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Richeson, David S. |
| 245 01 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Euler's Gem |
| Remainder of title | The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | ['Richeson, David S.'] |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Princeton University Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | p. |
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| Carrier type code | c |
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| Summary, etc. | Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so simple it can be explained to a child. Euler's Gem tells the illuminating story of this indispensable mathematical idea. From ancient Greek geometry to today's cutting-edge research, Euler's Gem celebrates the discovery of Euler's beloved polyhedron formula and its far-reaching impact on topology, the study of shapes. In 1750, Euler observed that any polyhedron composed of V vertices, E edges, and F faces satisfies the equation V-E+F=2. David Richeson tells how the Greeks missed the formula entirely; how Descartes almost discovered it but fell short; how nineteenth-century mathematicians widened the formula's scope in ways that Euler never envisioned by adapting it for use with doughnut shapes, smooth surfaces, and higher dimensional shapes; and how twentieth-century mathematicians discovered that every shape has its own Euler's formula. Using wonderful examples and numerous illustrations, Richeson presents the formula's many elegant and unexpected applications, such as showing why there is always some windless spot on earth, how to measure the acreage of a tree farm by counting trees, and how many crayons are needed to color any map. Filled with a who's who of brilliant mathematicians who questioned, refined, and contributed to a remarkable theorem's development, Euler's Gem will fascinate every mathematics enthusiast. |
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| 700 0# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Richeson, David S. |
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| Access method | Cyberlibris |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88838056">https://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88838056</a> |
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