Euclid's Window
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Euclid's Window

The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

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eBook - ePub

Euclid's Window

The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

About this book

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.Based on Mlodinow's extensive historical research; his studies alongside colleagues such as Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne; and interviews with leading physicists and mathematicians such as Murray Gell-Mann, Edward Witten, and Brian Greene, Euclid's Window is an extraordinary blend of rigorous, authoritative investigation and accessible, good-humored storytelling that makes a stunningly original argument asserting the primacy of geometry. For those who have looked through Euclid's Window, no space, no thing, and no time will ever be quite the same.

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Information

Publisher
Free Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781439135372
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Geometry
Index
Biological Sciences

INDEX

Abelard, Peter, 62, 67, 68
Abelard of Bath, 62
Absolute space, 156, 190
Absolute time, 190
Abstraction, 3, 4–5
Alexander the Great, 39–40
Alexandria, library at, 39–41, 43, 46, 47, 48–49, 59
Alexandrian Judaism, 27
Almagest (Ptolemy), 43
Alogon, 26
Anaximander, 15, 58
Angular defect, 121
Antimatter, 240
Apollonius, 47
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 65, 67-68
Archimedes, 42–43
Aristarchus of Samos, 42
Aristotle, ix, 56, 58, 160
Arithmetica (Boethius), 66
Arithmetica (Diophantus), 47
Axiomatization of mathematics, 149
Babylon, ancient, 4, 7–9
Bacon, Roger, 68
Baltzer, Richard, 120
Bartels, Johann, 111, 112, 119
Bartholomew (monk), 63
Bayes’ theorem, 31
Beekman, Isaac, 80–81
Bell, Alexander Graham, 171
Bell, John, 225
Beltrami, Eugenio, 120, 121, 145
Bertha, Queen, 60
Bible, 66, 67
Black Death, 64
Black holes, M-theory and, 259–60
Boethius, Anicius Manlius
Severinus, 45–46, 49, 66
Bologna, University of, 62
Bolyai, Johann, 118, 119–20, 121
Bolyai, Wolfgang, 109, 113, 114, 118, 119, 141
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 176
Born, Max, 220, 221
Bosonic string theory, 237, 250
Bosons, 250
Branes, 258, 260
Brown, Robert, 180
Brownian motion, 180–81
Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, 11, 24
Buettner, 110–11
Buoyancy, principle of, 42
Buridian, Jean, 77
Caesar, Julius, 44
Calabi-Yau spaces, 247–48, 253–54
Calculus, x, 42–43
Cantor, Georg, 27, 71
Carolingian miniscule, 61
Cartesian coordinates, 83
Cartography, 43, 53, 54, 59
medieval, 66
spherical triangles in, 135
Catholic Church, 86–87
under Charlemagne, 61
Descartes and, 88, 92
Galileo and, 86–87
medieval, 66–68
Ceres, 195
Chanu...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. I: The Story Of Euclid
  6. II: The Story of Descartes
  7. III: The Story of Gauss
  8. IV: The Story of Einstein
  9. V: The Story of Witten
  10. Epilogue
  11. Notes
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Index