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Topological Crystallography With a View Towards Discrete Geometric Analysis /

Geometry in ancient Greece is said to have originated in the curiosity of mathematicians about the shapes of crystals, with that curiosity culminating in the classification of regular convex polyhedra addressed in the final volume of Euclid's Elements. Since then, geometry has taken its own pat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunada, Toshikazu (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Surveys and Tutorials in the Applied Mathematical Sciences, 6
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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