Nets, puzzles, and postmen [[electronic resource] /] / Peter M. Higgins
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 510 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nets (Mathematics) |
| Mathematical recreations | |
| Mathematics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-241) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nets, puzzles, and postmen |
| ISBN: | 1-383-03581-4 |
| 0-19-162270-2 | |
| 1-281-34155-X | |
| 9786611341558 | |
| 0-19-155116-3 | |
| 1-4356-4221-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777061803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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