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Worlds Out of Nothing is the first book to provide a course on the history of geometry in the 19 th century. Based on the latest historical research, the book is aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics but will also appeal to the reader with a general interest in... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Poncelet: Add a description of this character.
- Hilbert
- Felix Klein
- Beltrami
- Monge
- Desargues
- Lobachevskii
- János Bolyai
- Gauss
- Einstein
- Enriques
- Hesse
- Chasles
- Steiner
- Helmholtz
- Lambert
- Möbius
- Riemann
- Saccheri
- Pasch
- Pappus
- Cayley
- Segre
- Napoleon
- Von Staudt
- Pieri
- Jacobi
- Frege
- Brianchon
- Clebsch
- Moulton
- Gergonne
- Bessel
- Dedekind
- Clifford
- Bartels
- Arago
- Minkowski
- Dirichlet
- Kant
- Geometrie Der Lage
- Codazzi
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeremy Gray (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Springer
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 1846286328
Page Count: 376
Publisher: Springer
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 1846286328
Page Count: 376
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 516.009034
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