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100 1  Bardi, Jason Socrates. 
245 14 The fifth postulate :|bhow unraveling a two-thousand-year-
       old mystery unraveled the universe /|cJason Socrates 
       Bardi. 
264  1 Hoboken, N.J. :|bWiley,|c[2009] 
264  4 |c©2009 
300    xi, 253 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
650  0 Parallels (Geometry) 
650  0 Geometry, Plane. 
650  0 Pythagorean theorem. 
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