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Ideas of Space

Hardcover • 1989 • English

Ideas of Space

By Jeremy Gray

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About the book

The history of the development of Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and relativistic ideas of the shape of the universe, is presented in this lively account by Jeremy Gray. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry occupies a unique position in the history of mathematics. In this book, Jeremy Gray reviews the failure of classical attempts to prove the postulate and then proceeds to show how the work of Gauss, Lobachevskii, and Bolyai, laid the foundations of modern differential geometry, by constru...Show more

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9780198539353

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

1989

Language

English

Original title

Ideas of Space

Format

Hardcover

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