The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe

Bardi, Jason Socrates

ISBN 10: 0470149094 ISBN 13: 9780470149096

Editorial: John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2009

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The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe

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John Wiley & Sons, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

2009

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0470149094

ISBN 13

9780470149096

Encuadernaci�n

hardcover

Edici�n

1st.

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The great discovery that no one wanted to make

It's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded�along with everything they'd come to know about geometry? Jason Socrates Bardi shares the dramatic story of the moment when the tangible and easily understood world we live in gave way to the strange, mind-blowing world of relativity, curved space-time, and more.

"Jason Socrates Bardi tells the story of the discovery of non-Euclidian geometry�one of the greatest intellectual advances of all time�with tremendous clarity and verve. I loved this book."
�John Horgan, author, The End of Science and Rational Mysticism

"An accessible and engrossing blend of micro-biography, history and mathematics, woven together to reveal a blockbuster discovery."
�David Wolman, author of Righting the Mother Tongue and A Left-Hand Turn around the World

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Jason Socrates Bardi, author of The Calculus Wars, holds master's degrees in both science writing and molecular biophysics from Johns Hopkins University.

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