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Author Gray, Jeremy, 1947-

Title Ideas of space : Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and relativistic / Jeremy Gray
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

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Description xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I -- 1. Early Geometry -- 2. Euclidean Geometry and the Parallel Postulate -- 3. Investigations by Islamic Mathematicians -- Part Ii -- 4. Saccheri and his Western Predecessors -- 5. J.H. Lambert's Work -- 6. Legendre's Work -- 7. Gauss' Contribution -- 8. Trigonometry -- 9. The First New Geometries -- 10. The Discoveries of Lobachevskii and Bolyai -- 11. Curves and Surfaces -- 12. Riemann on the Foundations of Geometry -- 13. Beltrami's Ideas -- 14. New Models and Old Arguments -- 15. Resume -- Part Iii -- 16. Non-Euclidean Mechanics -- 17. The Question of Absolute Space -- 18. Space, Time, and Space-Time -- 19. Paradoxes of Special Relativity -- 20. Gravitation and Non-Euclidean Geometry -- 21. Speculations -- 22. Some Last Thoughts
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [235]-239
Subject Geometry -- History.
Space and time -- Mathematical models -- History.
LC no. 89003012
ISBN 0198539347 (paperback)
0198539355