Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Critical and Historical Study of its Development
Robert Bonola
448 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0486600270
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Language: English
Publish: November 18, 2010
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.