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

Mlodinow, Leonard

Notes
Ever since Pythagoras hatched a 'little scheme' to invent a set of rules describing the entire universe, scientists and mathematicians have tried to seek order in the cosmos: Euclid, who in 300BC defined the nature of space; Descartes, a fourteenth-century gambler and idler who invented the graph; Gauss, the fifteen-year-old genius who discovered that space is curved; Einstein, who added time to the equation; and Witten, who ushered in today's weird new world of extra, twisted dimensions.

They all show how geometry is the key to understanding the universe. Once you have viewed life through Euclid's Window, it will never be the same again...
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Non fiction A12014X0247
Genre:Non-Fiction
Dewey:516
call #:MLO
ISBN:9780141009094
pub:2001