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Chemically, the same or different?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

G. T. Woods*
Affiliation:
Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1PA

Extract

This article is an exploration of some common ground between network theory in mathematics and isomerism in chemistry. As with all interdisciplinary studies, it is necessary to begin by identifying technical terms across the boundary between the two subjects. Once that has been done, the diagrams drawn by the chemist are interpreted in the language of geometry, and links are established between results in the two subjects.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1976

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References

1. Bausor, J., Mathematics and science; uneasy truce or open hostilities?, Math. Teaching 68, 3241 (September 1974).Google Scholar