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9781602064652
Examines various attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate -- by the Greeks, Arabs and Renaissance mathematicians. It considers forerunners and founders such as Saccheri, Lambert, Legendre, W. Bolyai, Gauss, others. Includes 181 diagrams.Bonola, Roberto is the author of 'Non-Euclidean Geometry', published 2007 under ISBN 9781602064652 and ISBN 1602064652.
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