Examines various attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate ― by the Greeks, Arabs and Renaissance mathematicians. Ranging through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it considers forerunners and founders such as Saccheri, Lambert, Legendre, W. Bolyai, Gauss, Schweikart, Taurinus, J. Bolyai and Lobachewsky. Includes 181 diagrams.
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First Dover Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly edgeworn and dust-dulled. Edges show a suggestion only of foxing. Remains well-preserved overall, with main text strong and clean. Physical description; xii, 268, [151] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes; Originally published as "La Geometrica non-Euclidea", Open Court Publishing Company, 1912. First Dover edition 1955. Contents; With a supplement containing the Dr. George Bruce Halsted translations of "The Science of Absolute Space" by John Bolyai and, "The Theory of Parallels" by Nicholas Lobachevski. Subjects; Geometry, non-Euclidean. Geometry, history. Mathematics, history. Space and time, mathematics. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 492000