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Examines various attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulateby the Greeks, Arabs and Renaissance mathematicians. Ranging through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it considers forerunners and founders such as Saccheri, Lambert, Legendre, W. Bolyai, Gauss, Schweikart, Taurinus, J. Bolyai and Lobachewsky.Bonola, Roberto is the author of 'Non-Euclidean Geometry' with ISBN 9780486600277 and ISBN 0486600270.
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