Euler's Gem

The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology

by David S. Richeson

2008 317 pages eng

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so simple it can be explained to a child. Euler's Gem tells the illuminating story of this indispensab…