Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Sibel Eraltan, Leonard Mlodinow

Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

Sibel Eraltan, Leonard Mlodinow

308 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced

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Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, ...

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