This book will bring the beauty and fun of learning mathematics to the classroom. It offers serious mathematics in a lively, reader-friendly style. Included are exercises and many figures that illustrate the main concepts. The first chapter presents the geometry and topology of surfaces. Among other topics, the authors discuss the Poincare-Hopf theorem on critical points of vector fields on surfaces and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem on the relation between curvature and topology (the Euler characteristics). The second chapter ...
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This book will bring the beauty and fun of learning mathematics to the classroom. It offers serious mathematics in a lively, reader-friendly style. Included are exercises and many figures that illustrate the main concepts. The first chapter presents the geometry and topology of surfaces. Among other topics, the authors discuss the Poincare-Hopf theorem on critical points of vector fields on surfaces and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem on the relation between curvature and topology (the Euler characteristics). The second chapter addresses various aspects of the concept of dimension, including the Peano curve and the Poincare approach. Also addressed are the structure of three-dimensional manifolds, in particular, provided that the three-dimensional sphere is the union of two doughnuts. This is the first of three volumes originating from a series of lectures given by the authors at Kyoto University (Japan). It is suitable for classroom use for high school mathematics teachers and undergraduate courses in science and liberal arts.
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