Name: In the Search for Beauty: Unravelling Non-Euclidean Geometry (en Inglés)
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Author: Smilga, Voldemar
ISBN: 9789811208300

portada In the Search for Beauty: Unravelling Non-Euclidean Geometry (en Inglés)

In the Search for Beauty: Unravelling Non-Euclidean Geometry (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Voldemar Smilga

Editorial

World Scientific Publishing Company

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9789811208300

Categorías

Filosofía de las matemáticas
Geometría
Historia de las matemáticas

In the Search for Beauty: Unravelling Non-Euclidean Geometry (en Inglés)

Voldemar Smilga (Autor) · World Scientific Publishing Company · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "In the Search for Beauty: Unravelling Non-Euclidean Geometry (en Inglés)"

This is a popular book that chronicles the historical attempts to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid on parallel lines that led eventually to the creation of non-Euclidean geometry. To absorb the mathematical content of the book, the reader should be familiar with the foundations of Euclidean geometry at the high school level. But besides the mathematics, the book is also devoted to stories about the people, brilliant mathematicians starting from Pythagoras and Euclid and terminating with Gauss, Lobachevsky and Klein. For two thousand years, mathematicians tried to prove the fifth postulate (whose formulation seemed to them too complicated to be a real postulate and not a theorem, hence the title In the Search for Beauty). But in the 19th century, they realized that such proof was impossible, and this led to a revolution in mathematics and then in physics. The two final chapters are devoted to Einstein and his general relativity which revealed to us that the geometry of the world we live in is not Euclidean.Also included is an historical essay on Omar Khayyam, who was not only a poet, but also a brilliant astronomer and mathematician.