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

DOI10.1007/s00283-014-9480-2zbMath1330.01047OpenAlexW2026691263MaRDI QIDQ897020

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

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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• Mathematical models as artefacts for research: Felix Klein and the case of Kummer surfaces
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