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The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays by H. S. M. Coxeter
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 |
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