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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Hoboken, N.J.
John Wiley & Sons
2009
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | 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 it ought to be discardedalong with everything they'd come to know about geometry? Jason Socrates Bardi shares the dramatic story of the moment when the tangible and easily understood world we live in gave way to the strange, mind-blowing world of relativity, curved space-time, and more |
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| Physical Description: | 253 p. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0470149094 9780470149096 |