0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics

Buy Now

Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish - Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri (Hardcover, 2014 ed.) Loot Price: R3,851
Discovery Miles 38 510
You Save: R289 (7%)
Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish - Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri...

Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish - Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Vincenzo de Risi; Gerolamo Saccheri; Translated by Linda Allegri, G. B. Halsted

Series: Classic Texts in the Sciences

 (sign in to rate)
List price R4,140 Loot Price R3,851 Discovery Miles 38 510 | Repayment Terms: R361 pm x 12* You Save R289 (7%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

This first complete English language edition of "Euclides vindicatus" presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri's text by G.B. Halsted. It is complemented with a historical introduction on the geometrical environment of the time and a detailed commentary that helps to understand the aims and subtleties of the work.""

"Euclides vindicatus, " written by the Jesuit mathematician Gerolamo Saccheri, was published in Milan in 1733. In it, Saccheri attempted to reform elementary geometry in two important directions: a demonstration of the famous Parallel Postulate and the theory of proportions. Both topics were of pivotal importance in the mathematics of the time. In particular, the Parallel Postulate had escaped demonstration since the first attempts at it in the Classical Age, and several books on the topic were published in the Early Modern Age. At the same time, the theory of proportion was the most important mathematical tool of the Galilean School in its pursuit of the mathematization of nature. Saccheri's attempt to prove the Parallel Postulate is today considered the most important breakthrough in geometry in the 18th century, as he was able to develop for hundreds of pages and dozens of theorems a system in geometry that denied the truth of the postulate (in the attempt to find a contradiction). This can be regarded as the first system of non-Euclidean geometry. Its later developments by Lambert, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Gauss eventually opened the way to contemporary geometry.Occupying a unique position in the literature of mathematical history, "Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish" will be of high interest to historians of mathematics as well as historians of philosophy interested in the development of non-Euclidean geometries.

General

Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Classic Texts in the Sciences
Release date: August 2014
First published: 2014
Editors: Vincenzo de Risi
Authors: Gerolamo Saccheri
Translators: Linda Allegri • G. B. Halsted
Dimensions: 240 x 168 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 381
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-05965-5
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Euclidean geometry
Promotions
LSN: 3-319-05965-3
Barcode: 9783319059655

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed?
N.J. Mackintosh Hardcover R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270
String, Straight-edge and Shadow - The…
Julia E Diggins Paperback R316 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880
The Maths That Made Us - how numbers…
Michael Brooks Paperback R315 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810
The Analyst; Or, a Discourse Addressed…
George Berkeley Paperback R407 Discovery Miles 4 070
bundle available
The Analyst, Or, a Discourse Addressed…
George Berkeley Paperback R408 Discovery Miles 4 080
Mathematics and Its Creators
Edmund Isakov Hardcover R711 Discovery Miles 7 110
Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott Hardcover R831 Discovery Miles 8 310
The Secret Lives of Numbers - A Global…
Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell Paperback R345 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180
Elementary Trigonometry; Solutions of…
H. S. (Henry Sinclair) 1848-1934 Hall, S. R. (Samuel Ratcliffe) Knight Hardcover R989 Discovery Miles 9 890
Lectures_on_the_philosophy_of_mathematic…
James Byrnie Shaw Hardcover R914 Discovery Miles 9 140
Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet…
Sofia Kovalevskaya Hardcover R835 Discovery Miles 8 350
Making up Numbers - A History of…
Ekkehard Kopp Hardcover R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200

See more

Partners