Janos Bolyai, Non-Euclidian Geometry, and the Nature of Space

by Jeremy J. Gray

An account of the major work of Janos Bolyai, a nineteenth-century mathematician who set the stage for the field of non-Euclidean geometry.

Janos Bolyai (1802-1860) was a mathematician who changed our fundamental ideas about space. As a teenager he started to explore a set of nettlesome geometrical problems, including Euclid's parallel postulate, and in 1832 he published a brilliant twenty-four-page paper that eventually shook the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262571749
• ISBN13: 9780262571746
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher