Experiments in Topology and other challenges

and other challenges

elementary Euclidean geometry

nor that the results are desirable

alert to the historical milieu and cultural background of Ravel's music

Ward earned the Library of Congress Award

Experiments in Topology and other challenges"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