Leonhard Euler (1707 –1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.
EULER
Can we construct a one-sided surface?
Key questions
How are the V, E and F of a graph related?
Is the link the same for polyhedra?
Does Euler's relationship always hold?
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Literacy
stories that set a frame or background
stories that accompany or intertwine
stories that introduce
stories that explain
stories that ask a question
stories that entertain
The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensburger
Penrose Discovers the Mobius Strip by Theoni Pappus
Introduce...
graphs and Euler - 1
some graphs - 1
planar graphs - 1, 3
using Euler - 1
Develop...
v, e, ,f solids - 2
Euler's rule - 1, 2
platonic solids - 2
schlegel diagrams - 1, 2