Fifth Postulate
How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded--along with everything they'd come to know about geometry? Jason Socrates Bardi shares the dramatic story of the moment when the tangible and easily understood world we live in gave way to the strange, mind-blowing world of r…
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- ISBN: 978-0-470-14909-6
- EAN: 9780470149096
- Produktnummer: 3690566
- Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.0 cm 602 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 602
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Jason Socrates Bardi, author of The Calculus Wars, holds master's degrees in both science writing and molecular biophysics from Johns Hopkins University.
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