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Can a polyhedron be smoothly turned inside out? What does four-dimensional space look like? Can non-spherical soap bubbles exist? This book visualizes mathematics, utilizing more than a thousand fascinating images to illustrate these and other questions.
Review Quotes: The consistently excellent graphical images provide good examples of how to construct a clean and elegant argument. May this book seduce many readers into mathematics. c t 17/09One can browse in this book to one s heart s content. For while the individual mathematical tidbits are arranged thematically, they do not depend on what has come previously. Therefore this book amazingly for a mathematics text is suitable even for the night table. Deutschlandradio Kultur