Non-Euclidean geometry
Subtitle: a critical and historical study of its development
By: by Roberto Bonola ... authorized English translation with additional appendices, by H.S. Carslaw ... with an introduction by Federigo Enriques ...
Contributors: Carslaw, H. S. 1870-1954.
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Published: 1912
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Geometry, Non-Euclidean.
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.