In the search for beauty : unravelling non-Euclidean geometry / Voldemar Smilga.

Author: Smilga, V. (Vol'demar) author.

ImprintSingapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, [2019]

Imprint2019

Descriptionxii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:"World Scientific presents you with the new English edition. For the new edition" Andrei Smilga edited parts of Yankovsky's translation, added missing texts, removed bugs, and modified translations of English. -- page vii.

Note:Before Euclid : prehistoric times -- Euclid -- The fifth postulate -- The age of proofs, the beginning -- Omar Khayyam -- The age of proofs (continued) -- Non-Euclidean geometry. The solution -- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevksy -- Non-Euclidean geometry. Some illustrations -- New ideas. Riemann. Non-contradictoriness -- An unexpected finale. The general theory of relativity -- Einstein.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note: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, with edits to the original text by Andrei Smilga, the author's son.

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