Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and
its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean
Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical
and philosophical setting; second, he examines a revolution every
bit as significant as the Copernican revolution in astronomy and
the Darwinian revolution in biology; third, on the most speculative
level, he questions the possibility of absolute knowledge of the
world.
Trudeau writes in a lively, entertaining, and highly accessible
style. His book provides one of the most stimulating and personal
presentations of a struggle with the nature of truth in mathematics
and the physical world.
A portion of the book won the Polya Prize, a distinguished award
from the Mathematical Association of America.
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