Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen : an Exploration of Mathematical Connections.
What do railways, mingling at parties, mazes, and the internet all have in common? All are networks - people or places or things that connect to one another. Peter Higgins shows that these phenomena - and many more - are underpinned by the same deep mathematical structure, and how this understanding...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, UK,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; 1. Nets, Trees, and Lies; 2. Trees and Games of Logic; 3. The Nature of Nets; 4. Colouring and Planarity; 5. How to Traverse a Network; 6. One-Way Systems; 7. Spanning Networks; 8. Going with the Flow; 9. Novel Applications of Nets; 10. For Connoisseurs; References; Further Reading; Index.