Robert G. Bill
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Geometry, Geodesics, and the Universe (eBook, ePUB)

The Lines that Led from Euclid to Einstein

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The story of the development of geometry is told as it emerged from the concepts of the ancient Greeks, familiar from high school, to the four-dimensional space-time that is central to our modern vision of the universe. The reader is first reacquainted with the geometric system compiled by Euclid with its postulates thought to be self-evident truths. A particular focus is on Euclid's fifth postulate, the Parallel Postulate and the many efforts to improve Euclid's system over hundreds of years by proving it from the first four postulates. Two thousand years after Euclid, in the process that wou...

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