The fifth postulate How unraveling a two-thousand-year-old mystery unraveled the universe

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 rea...

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Main Author: Jason Socrates Bardi
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English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons 2009
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh