عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QA481 .B237 2009
QA481
.
B237
2009
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0470149094
(Number (ISBN
9780470149096 (cloth)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The fifth postulate :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
how unraveling a two-thousand-year-old mystery unraveled the universe /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jason Socrates Bardi
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Hoboken, N.J. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
John Wiley & Sons,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 253 p. ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-244) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
A mathematician's Waterloo -- The strange vegetarian cult and mathematics -- The mystery maker -- Those false and would-be proofs -- A codebreaker's fix -- Searching for Ceres -- The dim light of exhaustion -- Gauss's little secret -- Lessons of curvature -- To stir the nests of wasps -- A strange new world -- A message for you, Ambassador -- "To praise it would be to praise myself" -- The birth of electronic communication -- The imaginary man from Kazan -- The soul of the universe -- The curvature of space
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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 than, if it were untrue, everything that was known about geometry, nature, and the universe itself would have to change.--[book jacket]
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Geometry, Plane
Parallels (Geometry)
Pythagorean theorem
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA481
Book number
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B237
2009
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Bardi, Jason Socrates
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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