| Description |
xi, 253 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Parallels (Geometry)
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Geometry, Plane.
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Pythagorean theorem.
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| ISBN |
9780470149096 cloth |
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0470149094 cloth |
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