The Fifth Postulate
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The Fifth Postulate

How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe

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The Fifth Postulate

How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe

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The great discovery that no one wanted to make

It's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded—along with everything they'd come to know about geometry? Jason Socrates Bardi shares the dramatic story of the moment when the tangible and easily understood world we live in gave way to the strange, mind-blowing world of relativity, curved space-time, and more.

"Jason Socrates Bardi tells the story of the discovery of non-Euclidian geometry—one of the greatest intellectual advances of all time—with tremendous clarity and verve. I loved this book."
—John Horgan, author, The End of Science and Rational Mysticism

"An accessible and engrossing blend of micro-biography, history and mathematics, woven together to reveal a blockbuster discovery."
—David Wolman, author of Righting the Mother Tongue and A Left-Hand Turn around the World

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Publisher
Trade Paper Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780470467367
Edition
1
Topic
Matemáticas
Subtopic
Juegos en matemáticas

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter 1 - A Mathematician’s Waterloo
  7. Chapter 2 - The Strange Vegetarian Cult and Mathematics
  8. Chapter 3 - The Mystery Maker
  9. Chapter 4 - Those False and Would-Be Proofs
  10. Chapter 5 - A Codebreaker’s Fix
  11. Chapter 6 - Searching for Ceres
  12. Chapter 7 - The Dim Light of Exhaustion
  13. Chapter 8 - Gauss’s Little Secret
  14. Chapter 9 - Lessons of Curvature
  15. Chapter 10 - To Stir the Nests of Wasps
  16. Chapter 11 - A Strange New World
  17. Chapter 12 - A Message for You, Ambassador
  18. Chapter 13 - “To Praise It Would Be to Praise Myself”
  19. Chapter 14 - The Birth of Electronic Communication
  20. Chapter 15 - The Imaginary Man from Kazan
  21. Chapter 16 - The Soul of the Universe
  22. Chapter 17 - The Curvature of Space
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index