Janos Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space

Name: Janos Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space
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ISBN: 9780262571746

ISBN-10: 0262571749

ISBN-13: 9780262571746

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jeremy J. Gray

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Janos Bolyai (1802-1860) was a mathematician who changed our fundamental ideas about space. As a teenager he started to explore a set of nettlesome geometrical problems, including Euclid's parallel postulate, and in 1832 he published a brilliant twenty-four-page paper that eventually shook the foundations of the 2000-year-old tradition of Euclidean geometry. Bolyai's "Appendix" (published as just that -- an appendix to a much longer mathematical work by his father) set up a series of mathematical proposals whose implications would blossom into the new field of non-Euclidean geometry, providing essential intellectual background for ideas as varied as the theory of relativity and the work of…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword


Bolyai's Appendix: An Introduction


Bolyai's "Section 32"


A Portrait at Last


Bibliography


The Appendix: A Facsimile


Halsted's Translation


George Bruce Halsted


The Science of Absolute Space