The great discovery that no one wanted to make
It'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 relativity, curved space-time, and more.
""Jason Socrates Bardi tells the story of the discovery of
non-Euclidian geometry--one of the greatest intellectual advances
of all time--with tremendous clarity and verve. I loved this
book.""
--John Horgan, author, "The End of Science and Rational
Mysticism"
""An accessible and engrossing blend of micro-biography, history
and mathematics, woven together to reveal a blockbuster
discovery.""
--David Wolman, author of "Righting the Mother Tongue" and "A
Left-Hand Turn around the World"
General
| Imprint: |
John Wiley & Sons
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2008 |
| First published: |
December 2008 |
| Authors: |
Jason Socrates Bardi
|
| Dimensions: |
236 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-470-14909-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-470-14909-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780470149096 |
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