Nets, puzzles, and postmen /:
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...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-241) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780191551161 0191551163 9786611341558 6611341552 |
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spelling | Higgins, Peter M., 1956- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjxmgFY7jkV3Ckcq9DfF83 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85386266 Nets, puzzles, and postmen / Peter M. Higgins. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-241) and index. Print version record. Nets, trees, and lies -- Trees -- Chemical isomers -- Lying liars and the lies they tell -- Trees and games of logic -- Familiar logic games -- Exotic squares and Sudoku -- The nature of nets -- The small world phenomenon -- The bridges of Ko?nigsberg -- Hand-shaking and its consequences -- Cycles that take you on a tour -- Party problems -- Colouring and planarity -- The four-colour map problem -- How edges can ruin planarity -- Rabbits out of hats: guarding the gallery ; innocent questions of points and lines ; Brouwer's fixed point theorem -- How to traverse a network -- The Euler-Fleury method -- The Chinese postman problem -- One-way systems -- Nets that remember where you have been -- Nets as machines -- Automata with something to say -- Lattices -- Spanning networks -- Sorting the traffic -- Greedy salesmen -- Finding the quick route -- The P versus NP controversy -- Going with the flow -- Network capacities and finding suitable boys -- Marriage and other problems -- Harems, maximum flows, and other things -- Novel applications of nets -- Instant insanity -- Sharing the wine -- Jealousy problems -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Trees and codes -- Reassembling RNA chains -- For connoisseurs. 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. Nets (Mathematics) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091044 Mathematical recreations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082131 Mathematics Popular works. Réseaux (Mathématiques) Jeux mathématiques. Mathématiques Ouvrages de vulgarisation. MATHEMATICS Pre-Calculus. bisacsh MATHEMATICS Reference. bisacsh MATHEMATICS Essays. bisacsh Mathematical recreations fast Mathematics fast Nets (Mathematics) fast Electronic books. Popular works fast Print version: Higgins, Peter M., 1956- Nets, puzzles, and postmen. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 0199218420 9780199218424 (DLC) 2008295526 (OCoLC)163311946 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=223875 Volltext |
spellingShingle | Higgins, Peter M., 1956- Nets, puzzles, and postmen / Nets, trees, and lies -- Trees -- Chemical isomers -- Lying liars and the lies they tell -- Trees and games of logic -- Familiar logic games -- Exotic squares and Sudoku -- The nature of nets -- The small world phenomenon -- The bridges of Ko?nigsberg -- Hand-shaking and its consequences -- Cycles that take you on a tour -- Party problems -- Colouring and planarity -- The four-colour map problem -- How edges can ruin planarity -- Rabbits out of hats: guarding the gallery ; innocent questions of points and lines ; Brouwer's fixed point theorem -- How to traverse a network -- The Euler-Fleury method -- The Chinese postman problem -- One-way systems -- Nets that remember where you have been -- Nets as machines -- Automata with something to say -- Lattices -- Spanning networks -- Sorting the traffic -- Greedy salesmen -- Finding the quick route -- The P versus NP controversy -- Going with the flow -- Network capacities and finding suitable boys -- Marriage and other problems -- Harems, maximum flows, and other things -- Novel applications of nets -- Instant insanity -- Sharing the wine -- Jealousy problems -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Trees and codes -- Reassembling RNA chains -- For connoisseurs. Nets (Mathematics) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091044 Mathematical recreations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082131 Mathematics Popular works. Réseaux (Mathématiques) Jeux mathématiques. Mathématiques Ouvrages de vulgarisation. MATHEMATICS Pre-Calculus. bisacsh MATHEMATICS Reference. bisacsh MATHEMATICS Essays. bisacsh Mathematical recreations fast Mathematics fast Nets (Mathematics) fast |
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