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Autore |
Higgins Peter M. <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Nets, puzzles, and postmen [[electronic resource] /] / Peter M. Higgins |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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1-383-03581-4 |
0-19-162270-2 |
1-281-34155-X |
9786611341558 |
0-19-155116-3 |
1-4356-4221-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nets (Mathematics) |
Mathematical recreations |
Mathematics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-241) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 gives us remarkable new insights into the world. - ;What do road and railway systems, electrical circuits, mingling at parties, mazes, family trees, and the internet all have in common?. All are networks - either people or places or things that relate and connect to one another. Only relatively rec |
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