The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Trade Paper PressISBN-13:9780470149096ISBN-10:470149094UPC:9780470149096Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Geometry, Recreations & GamesBook Topic:Non-EuclideanSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCPS0ZEV0X
The great discovery that no one wanted to make
It's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Trade Paper PressISBN-13:9780470149096ISBN-10:470149094UPC:9780470149096Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Geometry, Recreations & GamesBook Topic:Non-EuclideanSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCPS0ZEV0X
Jason Socrates Bardi, author of "The Calculus Wars," holds master's degrees in both science writing and molecular biophysics from Johns Hopkins University.
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