Book ID: CBB000750880

János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space (2004)

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Gray, Jeremy (Author)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: viii + 185pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Kiss, Elemér
Abardia, Judit
Alexits, György
Boskoffb, Wladimir G.
Braver, Seth Philip
Carter, Jessica
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Akadémiai Kiadó
Carocci Editore
Guaraldi
Lang
University of Montana
Concepts
Non-euclidean geometry
Mathematics
Geometry
Textbooks
Number theory; number concept
Physics
People
Bolyai, Janos (Johann) von
Lobachevskii, Nikolai Ivanovich
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Ekinci, Salih Zeki
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Abel, Niels Henrik
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Ancient
Places
Rome (Italy)
Europe
Greece
Italy
Norway
Turkey
Institutions
Istanbul Darülfünunu
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