Surfaces and Superposition

by Patrick C. Suppes and Ernest W. Adams

Buildings appear to rest on top of the earth's surface, yet the surface is actually permeated by the buildings' foundations-out of view. If a foundation's blueprints are unavailable, as in archaeology, excavation would be needed to discover what actually supports a specific building. Analogously, the fields of geometry and topology have easily observable concepts resting on the surface of theoretical underpinnings that have not been completely discovered,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575862808
• ISBN13: 9781575862804
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"