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- catalog abstract "How unique and definitive is Euclidean geometry in describing the "real" space in which we live? Richard rd 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. Trudeau writes in a lively, entertaining, and highly accessible style. His book provides one of the most stimulating and personal presentations of a struggle with the nature of truth in mathematics and the physical world. A portion of the book won the Pólya Prize, a distinguished award from the Mathematical Association of America.".
- catalog contributor b1815356.
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 261-262.".
- catalog description "First things -- Euclidean geometry -- Geometry and the diamond theory of truth -- The problem with postulate 5 -- The possibility of non-Euclidean geometry -- Hyperbolic geometry -- Consistency -- Geometry and the story theory of truth.".
- catalog description "How unique and definitive is Euclidean geometry in describing the "real" space in which we live? Richard rd 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. Trudeau writes in a lively, entertaining, and highly accessible style. His book provides one of the most stimulating and personal presentations of a struggle with the nature of truth in mathematics and the physical world. A portion of the book won the Pólya Prize, a distinguished award from the Mathematical Association of America.".
- catalog extent "xii, 269 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Non-Euclidean revolution.".
- catalog identifier "0817633111".
- catalog isFormatOf "Non-Euclidean revolution.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Birkhäuser,".
- catalog relation "Non-Euclidean revolution.".
- catalog subject "516.9 19".
- catalog subject "Geometry, Non-Euclidean.".
- catalog subject "QA685 .T75 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "First things -- Euclidean geometry -- Geometry and the diamond theory of truth -- The problem with postulate 5 -- The possibility of non-Euclidean geometry -- Hyperbolic geometry -- Consistency -- Geometry and the story theory of truth.".
- catalog title "The non-Euclidean revolution / Richard J. Trudeau ; with an introduction by H.S.M. Coxeter.".
- catalog type "text".