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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Near Fine to Fine in Printed Boards jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 269 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. My cloth copy has aqua boards with white and purple type face.
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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.
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As New. No Jacket, as Issued. 1st Printing. Octovo. pp. 270. A personal struggle with the nature of truth in mathematics and the physical world. Book is in excellent condition, with bibliography, index. Printed green and yellow paper boards, very slight bumped corners, dedication to owner on fly. Clean, tight, no markings, spine smooth.
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