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Euclid's Window - The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R309
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Euclid's Window - The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Paperback, New Ed)

Leonard Mlodinow

Series: Penguin Press Science Series

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Euclid’s Window takes us on a brilliantly entertaining journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world around us.

Ever since Pythagorus hatched a ‘little scheme’ to invent a set of rules describing the entire universe, scientists and mathematicians have tried to seek order in the cosmos: Euclid, who in 300BC defined the nature of space; Descartes, a fourteenth-century gambler and idler who invented the graph; Gauss, the fifteen-year-old genius who discovered that space is curved; Einstein, who added time to the equation; and Witten, who ushered in today’s weird new world of extra, twisted dimensions. They all show how geometry is the key to understanding the universe. Once you have viewed life through Euclid’s Window, it will never be the same again.

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Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Penguin Press Science Series
Release date: February 2003
First published: February 2007
Authors: Leonard Mlodinow
Dimensions: 201 x 131 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 306
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-100909-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > General
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LSN: 0-14-100909-8
Barcode: 9780141009094

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