Ideas of Space
Author:   Jeremy Gray (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Open University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
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9780198539346


Pages:   253
Publication Date:   01 August 1989
Format:   Paperback
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The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry occupies a unique position in the history of mathematics. This is an account of the history of the development of Euclidean, non-Euclidean and relativistic ideas of the shape of the universe. The author reviews the failure of classical attempts to prove the postulate, before showing how the work of Gauss, Lobachevskii and Bolyai laid the foundations of modern differential geometry by constructing geometries in which the parallel postulate fails. The material, which has been revised and updated for this edition, includes a chapter on the Arabic contribution to mathematical history.

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Author:   Jeremy Gray (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Open University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.438kg
ISBN:  

9780198539346


ISBN 10:   0198539347
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   01 August 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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