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 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 net…
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- Full title :Nets, puzzles, and postmen / Peter M. Higgins.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9786611341558, 6611341552, 0191551163, 9780191551161
- oclc:on1161998532
- LC Classification:QA95
- Dewey Decimal:510
Table of Contents
1. Nets, Trees, and Lies; 2. Trees and Games of Logic; 3. The Nature of Nets; 4. Colouring and Planarity; 5. How to Traverse a Network; 6. One-Way Systems; 7. Spanning Networks; 8. Going with the Flow; 9. Novel Applications of Nets; 10. For Connoisseurs; References; Further Reading; Index;
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