Explorations in topology : map coloring, surfaces, and knots

著者

    • Gay, David

書誌事項

Explorations in topology : map coloring, surfaces, and knots

David Gay

Elsevier Academic Press, c2007

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Explorations in Topology gives students a rich experience with low-dimensional topology, enhances their geometrical and topological intuition, empowers them with new approaches to solving problems, and provides them with experiences that would help them make sense of a future, more formal topology course. The innovative story-line style of the text models the problems-solving process, presents the development of concepts in a natural way, and through its informality seduces the reader into engagement with the material. The end-of-chapter Investigations give the reader opportunities to work on a variety of open-ended, non-routine problems, and, through a modified "Moore method", to make conjectures from which theorems emerge. The students themselves emerge from these experiences owning concepts and results. The end-of-chapter Notes provide historical background to the chapter's ideas, introduce standard terminology, and make connections with mainstream mathematics. The final chapter of projects provides opportunities for continued involvement in "research" beyond the topics of the book.

目次

Preface vii Chapter 1: Acme Does Maps and Considers Coloring Them Chapter 2: Acme Adds Tours Chapter 3: Acme Collects Data from Maps Chapter 4: Acme Collects More Data, Proves a Theorem, and Returns to Coloring Maps Chapter 5: Acme's Solicitor Proves a Theorem: the Four-Color Conjecture Chapter 6: Acme Adds Doughnuts to Its Repertoire Chapter 7: Acme Considers the Moebius Strip Chapter 8: Acme Creates New Worlds: Klein Bottles and Other Surfaces Chapter 9: Acme Makes Order Out of Chaos: Surface Sums and Euler Numbers Chapter 10: Acme Classifies Surfaces Chapter 11: Acme Encounters the Fourth Dimension Chapter 12: Acme Colors Maps on Surfaces: Heawood's Estimate Chapter 13: Acme Gets All Tied Up with Knots Chapter 14: Where to Go from Here: Projects Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA79367953
  • ISBN
    • 0123708583
  • LCCN
    2006017400
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Burlington, Mass.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 339 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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