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THE NON-EUCLIDEAN REVOLUTION IBD

BIRKHäUSER
02 / 2008
9780817647827
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Sinopsis

Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical and philosophical setting, second, he examines a revolution every bit as significant as the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the Darwinian revolution in biology, third, on the most speculative level, he questions the possibility of absolute knowledge of the world. A portion of the book won the Pólya Prize, a distinguished award from the Mathematical Association of America.