Excursion in Diagrammatic Algebra, An: Turning a Sphere from Red to Blue

ISBN-13: 9789814374491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

J. Scott Carter

Opis

Gives a description of one of the most beautiful and complicated examples in low-dimensional topology. This text describes the essential topological ideas through metaphors that are experienced in everyday life: shadows, the human form, the intersections between walls, and the creases in a shirt or a pair of trousers.