Peter McMullen (University College London)

Gebundenes Buch

Geometric Regular Polytopes

Beschreibung

Regular polytopes and their symmetry have a long history. This book, the first to cover modern theory, explores the subject in depth, introducing new techniques and elementary approaches to familiar ideas. It caters for experienced researchers and also for graduate students in discrete and Euclidean geometry, combinatorics and group theory.

Autor

Peter McMullen is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at University College London. He was elected a foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2006 and is also a member of the London Mathematical Society and the European Mathematical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He has co-edited several books and co-authored Abstract Regular Polytopes (Cambridge, 2002). His work has been discussed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1974.

Produktdetails

• Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 619
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1094g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489584
• ISBN-10: 1108489583
• Artikelnr.: 58304924