Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Critical and Historical Study of its Development
by Roberto Bonola
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company 1912
ISBN/ASIN: 0486600270
Number of pages: 292
Description:
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.
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