Experiments in Topology jonathan dayton

jonathan dayton

The informal and colorful narrative

The authors trace the rise of religious belief from primitive humans' struggles to explain natural phenomena to the modern-day exploitation of the working classes

with twelve other prominent philosophers in between

Designed for students just beginning their study of the discipline

Experiments in Topology jonathan dayton"A mathematician named Klein Thought the Moebius band was divine. Said he: 'If you glue The edges of two, You'll get a weird bottle like mine.' " Stephen Barr In this lively book, the classic in its field, a master of recreational topology invites readers to venture into such tantalizing topological realms as continuity and connectedness via the Klein bottle and the Moebius strip. Beginning with a definition of topology and a discussion of Euler's