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.
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Space and time -- Mathematical models -- History.
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LC no. |
89003012 |
ISBN |
0198539347 (paperback) |
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0198539355 |
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