Autorentext

Maurice Fréchet and Ky Fan. Translated by Howard W. Eves



Klappentext

An elementary text that can be understood by anyone with a background in high school geometry, Invitation to Combinatorial Topology offers a stimulating initiation to important topological ideas. This translation from the original French does full justice to the text's coherent presentation as well as to its rich historical content. Subjects include the problems inherent to coloring maps, homeomorphism, applications of Descartes' theorem, and topological polygons. Considerations of the topological classification of closed surfaces cover elementary operations, use of normal forms of polyhedra, reduction to normal form, and application to the geometric theory of functions. 1967 edition. 108 figures. Bibliography. Index.



Inhalt

Foreword
Translator's Preface
CHAPTER ONE. TOPOLOGICAL GENERALITIES
1. Qualitative Geometric Properties
2. Coloring Geographical Maps
3. The Problem of Neighboring Regions
4. "Topology, India-Rubber Geometry"
5. Homeomorphism
6. "Topology, Continuous Geometry"
7. "Comparison of Elementary Geometry, Projective Geometry, and Topology"
8. Relative Topological Properties
9. Set Topology and Combinatorial Topology
10. The Development of Topology
CHAPTER TWO. TOPOLOGICAL NOTIONS ABOUT SURFACES
11. Descartes' Theorem
12. An Application of Descartes' Theorem
13. Characteristic of a Surface
14. Unilateral Surfaces
15. Orientability and Nonorientability
16. Topological Polygons
17. Construction of Closed Orientable Surfaces from Polygons by Identifying Their Sides
18. Construction of Closed Nonorientable Surfaces from Polygons by Identifying Their Sides
19. Topological Definition of a Closed Surface
CHAPTER THREE. TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF CLOSED SURFACES
20. The Principle Problem in the Topology of Surfaces
21. Planar Polygonal Schema and Symbolic Representation of a Polyhedron
22. Elementary Operations
23. Use of Normal Forms of Polyhedra
24. Reduction to Normal Form: I
25. Reduction to Normal Form: II
26. Characteristic and Orientability
27. The Principle Theorem of the Topology of Closed Surfaces
28. Application to the Geometric Theory of Functions
29. Genus and Connection Number of Closed Orientable Surfaces
Bibliography
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
Index

Titel
Invitation to Combinatorial Topology
Übersetzer
EAN
0800759147885
ISBN
978-0-486-14788-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
13.08.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
3.26 MB
Anzahl Seiten
136
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch