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The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe,Used
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The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenthcentury mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discardedalong with everything they'd come to know about geometry? Jason Socrates Bardi shares the dramatic story of the moment when the tangible and easily understood world we live in gave way to the strange, mindblowing world of relativity, curved spacetime, and more.'Jason Socrates Bardi tells the story of the discovery of nonEuclidian geometryone of the greatest intellectual advances of all timewith tremendous clarity and verve. I loved this book.' John Horgan, author, The End of Science and Rational Mysticism'An accessible and engrossing blend of microbiography, history and mathematics, woven together to reveal a blockbuster discovery.' David Wolman, author of Righting the Mother Tongue and A LeftHand Turn Around the World
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