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Topology : a very short introduction / Richard Earl.
LIBRA QA611 .E27 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earl, Richard, author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions ; 622.
- Very short introductions ; 622
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Topology--Popular works.
- Topology.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 141 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- How is a subway map different from other maps? What makes a knot knotted? What makes the Mobius strip one-sided? These are questions of topology, the mathematical study of properties preserved by twisting or stretching objects. In the 20th century, topology became as broad and fundamental as algebra and trigonometry, with important implications for science, especially physics.
- Contents:
- What is topology?
- Making surfaces
- Thinking continuously
- The plane and other spaces
- Flavours of topology
- Unknot or knot to be?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 137) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198832683
- 0198832680
- OCLC:
- 1122868793
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