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by Jeremy J. Gray

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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 foundations of the 2000-year-old tradition of Euclidean geometry. Bolyai's Appendix (published as just that--an appendix to a much longer mathematical work by his father) set up a series of mathematical proposals whose implications would blossom into the new field of non-Euclidean geometry, providing essential intellectual background for ideas as varied as the theory of relativity and the work of Marcel Duchamp. In this short book, Jeremy Gray explains Bolyai's ideas and the historical context in which they emerged, were debated, and were eventually recognized as a central achievement in the Western intellectual tradition. Intended for nonspecialists, the book includes facsimiles of Bolyai's original paper and the 1898 English translation by G. B. Halstead, both reproduced from copies in the Burndy Library at MIT.

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  • Title Janos Bolyai, Non-Euclidian Geometry, and the Nature of Space
  • Author Jeremy J. Gray
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, UK
  • Publication date 2004-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780262571746 / 0262571749
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 4.96 x 0.9 in (21.03 x 12.60 x 2.29 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Mathematics
  • Library of Congress subjects Space and time, Geometry, Non-Euclidean
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003071062
  • Dewey Decimal Code 516.9

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Jeremy J. Gray is Professor at the Open University, UK.

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