New York: The Free Press, 2001. A very attractive copy of the hardcover First Edition. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket. Tough-to-find in collectible condition as nice as this. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($26.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Only a few illustrations. Mathematics history. List of chapter notes/references. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through the five revolutions in geometry, from the the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace� EUCLID'S WINDOW is� good-humored storytelling that makes a stunningly original argument asserting the primacy of geometry.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 306pp.

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Titolo

Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

Editore

The Free Press, New York

Data di pubblicazione

2001

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0684865238

ISBN 13

9780684865232

Rilegatura

Hardcover

Edizione

First Printing of the First Edition.

Condizione

Fine condition

Condizione della sovraccoperta

Fine dust jacket

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Mathematics

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The history of geometry in relation to "space" discusses the contributions of Pythagoras, the advent of Albert Einstein's "fourth dimension," and the discovery of seven more dimensions by Princeton mathematician Edward Witten.

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Leonard Mlodinow, Ph.D., was a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology before moving to Hollywood to become a writer for numerous television shows ranging from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Night Court. He has also developed many bestselling and award-winning educational CD-ROMs, and delivered technical and general lectures in ten countries. He is currently Vice President, Emerging Technologies and R&D, at Scholastic Inc. He lives in New York City.

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