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Playing with Shape and Form: A Glimpse of Topology
 
Richard Evan Schwartz Brown University, Providence, RI
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-7959-6
Product Code:  MBK/152
List Price: $25.00
MAA Member Price: $22.50
AMS Member Price: $20.00
Not yet published - Preorder Now!
Expected availability date: December 10, 2024
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Playing with Shape and Form: A Glimpse of Topology
Richard Evan Schwartz Brown University, Providence, RI
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-7959-6
Product Code:  MBK/152
List Price: $25.00
MAA Member Price: $22.50
AMS Member Price: $20.00
Not yet published - Preorder Now!
Expected availability date: December 10, 2024
  • Book Details
     
     
    2024; 154 pp
    MSC: Primary 57; Secondary 00; 54

    Topology is the field of mathematics that studies those properties of a shape which persist when the shape gently evolves and changes its specific form. This book gives a playful and intuitive introduction to topology, favoring simple and crisp illustrations over long explanations and formal definitions. The material includes some of the classic results one would see in undergraduate courses on topology and graph theory, but presents these results in a way that readers without any knowledge of mathematics will be able to understand.

    Readership

    Undergraduate students interested in finding out what topology is all about.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Loops
    • Paths
    • Trees
    • Trees and Polygons
    • Cell Divisions
    • Euler’s Formula
    • Connecting Five Points
    • Connecting Three Points to Three Points
    • The Cylinder
    • The Möbius Band
    • The Torus
    • Connecting Seven Points on a Torus
    • The Klein Bottle and the Projective Plane
    • The Genus-2 Surface
    • Mix and Match
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2024; 154 pp
MSC: Primary 57; Secondary 00; 54

Topology is the field of mathematics that studies those properties of a shape which persist when the shape gently evolves and changes its specific form. This book gives a playful and intuitive introduction to topology, favoring simple and crisp illustrations over long explanations and formal definitions. The material includes some of the classic results one would see in undergraduate courses on topology and graph theory, but presents these results in a way that readers without any knowledge of mathematics will be able to understand.

Readership

Undergraduate students interested in finding out what topology is all about.

  • Loops
  • Paths
  • Trees
  • Trees and Polygons
  • Cell Divisions
  • Euler’s Formula
  • Connecting Five Points
  • Connecting Three Points to Three Points
  • The Cylinder
  • The Möbius Band
  • The Torus
  • Connecting Seven Points on a Torus
  • The Klein Bottle and the Projective Plane
  • The Genus-2 Surface
  • Mix and Match
Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
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