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

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