Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
A lively popular-science narrative tracing the development of geometry from ancient Greek axioms through the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries and the 19th-century revolution, showing how shifts in our understanding of space—guided by ideas about light, measurement and gravity—led to Einstein’s curved spacetime and modern notions of the universe’s shape and extra dimensions. It explains key mathematical breakthroughs and the personalities behind them, and connects abstract geometric concepts to concrete physical and cosmological consequences in an accessible, story-driven way.
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- Published
- 2001
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- American
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- English
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