عنوان

Euclid's window :

(Number (ISBN

0684865238

(Number (ISBN

9780684865232

Number

b526826

Title Proper

Euclid's window :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace /

First Statement of Responsibility

Leonard Mlodinow.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Free Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2001]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2001

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 306 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Pt. 1: The story of Euclid. The first revolution ; The geometry of taxation ; Among the seven sages ; The secret society ; Euclid's manifesto ; A beautiful woman, a library, and the end of civilization -- Pt. 2: The story of Descartes. The revolution in place ; The origin of latitude and longitude ; The legacy of the rotten Romans ; The discreet charm of the graph ; A soldier's story ; Iced by the Snow Queen -- Pt. 3: The story of Gauss. The curved space revolution ; The trouble with Ptolemy ; A Napoleonic hero ; The fall of the fifth postulate ; Lost in hyperbolic space ; Some insects called the human race ; A tale of two aliens ; After 2,000 years, a face-lift -- Pt. 4: The story of Einstein. Revolution at the speed of light ; Relativity's other Albert ; The stuff of space ; Probationary technical expert, third class ; A relatively Euclidean approach ; Einstein's apple ; From inspiration to perspiration ; Blue hair triumphs -- Pt. 5: The story of Witten. The weird revolution ; Ten things I hate about your theory ; The necessary uncertainty of being ; Clash of the Titans ; A message in a Kaluza-Klein bottle ; The birth of strings ; Particles, schmarticles ; The trouble with strings ; The theory formerly known as strings.

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Text of Note

Physicist/writer Mlodinow leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is a new alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology. The journey goes from Pythagoras through Gauss and Einstein and into the midst of a new revolution in which scientists are recognizing that all the varied and wondrous forces of nature can be understood through geometry--a weird new geometry of extra, twisted dimensions, in which space and time, matter and energy, are all intertwined and revealed as consequences of a deep, underlying structure of the universe. This book, a blend of rigorous, authoritative investigation and accessible, good-humored storytelling, makes an original argument asserting the primacy of geometry.--From publisher description.

Title

Euclid's window.

Title

Euclid's window.

Geometry-- History.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Mlodinow, Leonard,1954-

Date of Transaction

20140321105132.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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