Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri - Classic Texts in the Sciences - Gerolamo Saccheri - Books - Birkhauser Verlag AG - 9783319059655 - August 19, 2014
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Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri - Classic Texts in the Sciences 2014 edition

Gerolamo Saccheri

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Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri - Classic Texts in the Sciences 2014 edition

Saccheri's attempt to prove the Parallel Postulate is today considered the most important breakthrough in geometry in the 18th century, as he was able to develop for hundreds of pages and dozens of theorems a system in geometry that denied the truth of the postulate (in the attempt to find a contradiction).

388 pages, 83 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 19, 2014
ISBN13 9783319059655
Publishers Birkhauser Verlag AG
Pages 381
Dimensions 163 × 247 × 26 mm   ·   771 g
Language English  
Translator Allegri, Linda
Translator Halsted, G.B.

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