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EXCURSION IN DIAGRAMMATIC ALGEBRA, AN: TURNING A SPHERE FROM RED TO BLUE: 48 (Series on Knots & Everything) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 20: Series on Knots and Everything

CARTER J SCOTT

 
9789814374491: EXCURSION IN DIAGRAMMATIC ALGEBRA, AN: TURNING A SPHERE FROM RED TO BLUE: 48 (Series on Knots & Everything)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814374490 ISBN 13: 9789814374491
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to give as detailed a description as is possible of one of the most beautiful and complicated examples in low-dimensional topology. This example is a gateway to a new idea of higher dimensional algebra in which diagrams replace algebraic expressions and relationships between diagrams represent algebraic relations. The reader may examine the changes in the illustrations in a leisurely fashion; or with scrutiny, the reader will become familiar and develop a facility for these diagrammatic computations.The text describes the essential topological ideas through metaphors that are experienced in everyday life: shadows, the human form, the intersections between walls, and the creases in a shirt or a pair of trousers. Mathematically informed reader will benefit from the informal introduction of ideas. This volume will also appeal to scientifically literate individuals who appreciate mathematical beauty.

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The aim of this book is to give as detailed a description as is possible of one of the most beautiful and complicated examples in low-dimensional topology. This example is a gateway to a new idea of higher dimensional algebra in which diagrams replace algebraic expressions and relationships between diagrams represent algebraic relations. The reader may examine the changes in the illustrations in a leisurely fashion; or with scrutiny, the reader will become familiar and develop a facility for these diagrammatic computations.

The text describes the essential topological ideas through metaphors that are experienced in everyday life: shadows, the human form, the intersections between walls, and the creases in a shirt or a pair of trousers. Mathematically informed reader will benefit from the informal introduction of ideas. This volume will also appeal to scientifically literate individuals who appreciate mathematical beauty.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814374490
ISBN 13 
9789814374491
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
296