Accession Number:
AD0691822
Title:
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING STRAIGHT.
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.,
Corporate Author:
WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE DEPT OF MATHEMATICS
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Report Date:
1969-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
21.0
Abstract:
Examples of open problems from three fields are used to discuss the thesis that our imperfect understanding of closely related objects is at the root of the difficulties encountered in solving the problems. The fields discussed are 1 arrangements of lines, or of pseudolines, in the projective plane 2 boundary complexes of polytopes, and combinatorial spheres 3 boundary complexes of centrally symmetric polytopes, and combinatorial spheres with a center of symmetry. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Theoretical Mathematics