This is the story of the 2100-year intellectual adventure which led to the new geometry's invention. After recounting the origin of deductive geometry in Ancient Greece, the book reviews its fundamentals, using Euclid's original treatise. It then discusses the events that led to the invention of a geometry that contradicts Euclidean geometry. The work concludes by discussing how the invention of non-Euclidean geometry has changed mathematicians' view of their subject, and contributed to the emergence of a new theory of ...
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This is the story of the 2100-year intellectual adventure which led to the new geometry's invention. After recounting the origin of deductive geometry in Ancient Greece, the book reviews its fundamentals, using Euclid's original treatise. It then discusses the events that led to the invention of a geometry that contradicts Euclidean geometry. The work concludes by discussing how the invention of non-Euclidean geometry has changed mathematicians' view of their subject, and contributed to the emergence of a new theory of knowledge.
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Good. Ex-library. 269 p. : ill.; 24 cm. LCCN 2007940674 Type of material Book Personal name Trudeau, Richard J. Main title The non-Euclidean revolution / Richard J. Trudeau; with an introduction by H.S.M. Coxeter. Published/Created Boston: Birkha?user, c2008. Description 269 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780817647827 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780817647834 (e-ISBN) LC classification QA685. T75 2008 LC Subjects Geometry, Non-Euclidean. Notes "Reprint of the 1987 edition." Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-262) and index. Series Modern Birkha?user classics Dewey class no. 516.9
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Near Fine. Hardcover, 1987, octavo, 269pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
