What are models for? Alexander Crum Brown's knitted mathematical surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00283-014-9480-2zbMATH Open1330.01047OpenAlexW2026691263MaRDI QIDQ897020FDOQ897020

Authors: David E. Dunning 

Publication date: 16 December 2015

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9480-2

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zbMATH Keywords

mathematical modelearly topologymathematical knitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of general topology (54-03)

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