Five More Golden Rules
Subtitle: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics
Publisher: Wiley
Published: January 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780471395287
First sentence: According to legend, one of the world's first knot theorists was the simple Greek peasant, Gordius, who was named king of Phrygia when he arrived in a public square in an oxen cart around 1200 B.C., thus fulfilling an oracle's pronouncement that the future king would arrive in a wagon.