num_pages: 448
description: Examines various attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate — by the Greeks, Arabs and Renaissance mathematicians. Ranging through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it considers forerunners and founders such as Saccheri, Lambert, Legendre, W. Bolyai, Gauss, Schweikart, Taurinus, J. Bolyai and Lobachewsky. Includes 181 diagrams.
language: English
title: Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Critical and Historical Study of its Development
titlecomplete: Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Critical and Historical Study of its Development
genres: Mathematics
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Dover Publications