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by H. S. M. Coxeter
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ISBN: 0486409198 Dover Publications Price: $14.95 |
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These absorbing essays by a distinguished mathematician provide a compelling demonstration of the charms of mathematics. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this collection is sure to interest students, mathematicians and any math buff with its lucid treatment of geometry and the crucial role geometry plays in a wide range of mathematical applications.
Table of Contents for The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays
| Preface | |||||||
| 1 The Functions of Schläfli and Lobatschefsky | |||||||
| 2 Integral Cayley Numbers | |||||||
| 3 Wythoff's Construction for Uniform Polytopes | |||||||
| 4 The Classification of Zonohedra by Means of Projective Diagrams | |||||||
| 5 "Regular Skew polyhedra in Three and Four Dimensions, and Their Topological Analogues " | |||||||
| 6 Self-dual Configurations and Regular Graphs | |||||||
| 7 "Twelve Points in PG(5, 3) with 95040 Self-transformations " | |||||||
| 8 Arrangements of Equal Spheres in Non-Euclidean Spaces | |||||||
| 9 An Upper Bound for the Number of Equal Nonoverlapping Spheres That Can Touch Another of the Same Size | |||||||
| 10 Regular Honeycombs in Hyperbolic Space | |||||||
| 11 Reflected Light Signals | |||||||
| 12 Geometry | |||||||
| Index |