The fifth postulate
Subtitle: how unraveling a two thousand year old mystery unraveled the universe
By: Jason Socrates Bardi.
Publisher: Wiley; John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780470149096
Subjects: Parallels (Geometry); Geometry, Plane; Pythagorean theorem
Other titles: 5th postulate
Description: Jason Socrates Bardi tells the story of how the reluctant discovery of the strangely parallel, triumphant, and tragic lives of János Bolyai, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Nikolai Lobachevsky came to the same profound conclusion. It examines a world of science in which the objective quest for new truth is inhibited by blind adherence to an old, unproven postulate, mainly because of fear that, if it were untrue, everything that was known about geometry, nature, and the universe itself would have to change.--[book jacket].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.