Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David S. Richeson

Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology

David S. Richeson

336 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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How a simple equation reshaped mathematics 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 theorem is so sim...

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