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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b1900980.
- catalog contributor b1900981.
- catalog contributor b1900982.
- catalog created "1912.".
- catalog date "1912".
- catalog date "1912.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1912.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "The attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate -- The forerunners of non-Euclidean geometry -- The founders of non-Euclidean geometry -- The founders of non-Euclidean geometry (cont.) -- The later development of non-Euclidean geometry -- Appendix I. The fundamental principles of statics and Euclid's postulate -- Appendix II. Clifford's parallels and surface. Sketch of Clifford-Klein's problem -- Appendix III. The non-Euclidean parallel construction and other allied constructions -- Appendix IV. The independence of projective geometry from Euclid's postulate -- Appendix V. The impossibility of proving Euclid's postulate.".
- catalog extent "xii, 268 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Non-Euclidean geometry.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Non-Euclidean geometry.".
- catalog issued "1912".
- catalog issued "1912.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company,".
- catalog relation "Non-Euclidean geometry.".
- catalog subject "Geometry, Non-Euclidean.".
- catalog subject "QA685 .B83".
- catalog tableOfContents "The attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate -- The forerunners of non-Euclidean geometry -- The founders of non-Euclidean geometry -- The founders of non-Euclidean geometry (cont.) -- The later development of non-Euclidean geometry -- Appendix I. The fundamental principles of statics and Euclid's postulate -- Appendix II. Clifford's parallels and surface. Sketch of Clifford-Klein's problem -- Appendix III. The non-Euclidean parallel construction and other allied constructions -- Appendix IV. The independence of projective geometry from Euclid's postulate -- Appendix V. The impossibility of proving Euclid's postulate.".
- catalog title "Non-Euclidean geometry; a critical and historical study of its development, by Roberto Bonola ... authorized English translation with additional appendices, by H.S. Carslaw ... with an introduction by Federigo Enriques ...".
- catalog type "text".