Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Critical and Historical Study of its Development | 
 enlarge | Authors: Roberto Bonola, Nicholas Lobachevski, John Boylai
Creators: Federigo Enriques, H. S. Carslaw
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 951681
Media: Paperback
Pages: 431
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0486600270
Dewey Decimal Number: 511
EAN: 9780486600277
Publication Date: June 1, 1955
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Examines various attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate — by the Greeks, Arabs and Renaissance mathematicians. Ranging through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it considers forerunners and founders such as Saccheri, Lambert, Legendre, W. Bolyai, Gauss, Schweikart, Taurinus, J. Bolyai and Lobachewsky. Includes 181 diagrams.
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A very old classic July 28, 2001
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
In Einstein's day this might have been a very good read! It is very well written. It is like reading a Spanish concurrent to Russell. A little reading finds it is a translation of a 1912 text. With general Relativity being a product of the understanding of the velocity based non Euclidean geometry of Lorentz who based his work on Poincare who based his work on Klein who based his work on... you see that history is important in an axiomatic development like this has been! But for a modern student of geometry, this book is much like buying a copy of Euclid's book on geometry: a reference that might help with understanding, but is so far out of date that it can be very little help in current problem!
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