Title:
Topology : a very short introduction / Richard Earl.
Author:
Earl, Richard, author.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]
©2019
Call Number:
QA611 .E37 2019
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780198832683
Series:
Very short introductions ; 622
Very short introductions ; 622.
Physical Description:
xx, 141 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
What is topology? -- Making surfaces -- Thinking continuously -- The plane and other spaces -- Flavours of topology -- Unknot or knot to be?
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