Janos Bolyai, Non-Euclidian Geometry, and the Nature of Space

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An account of the major work of Janos Bolyai, a nineteenth-century mathematician who set the stage for the field of non-Euclidean geometry.

Janos Bolyai (1802-1860) was a mathematician who changed our fundamental ideas about space. As a teenager he started to explore a set of nettlesome geometrical problems, including Euclid's parallel postulate, and in 1832 he published a brilliant twenty-four-page paper that eventually shook the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262571749

ISBN13:9780262571746

Release Date:June 2004

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.0" x 8.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Math Mathematics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Social Science Social Sciences

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