Overview
Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical and philosophical setting; second, he examines a revolution every bit as significant as the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the Darwinian revolution in biology; third, on the most speculative level, he questions the possibility of absolute knowledge of the world. Trudeau writes in a lively, entertaining, and highly accessible style. His book provides one of the most stimulating and personal presentations of a struggle with the nature of truth in mathematics and the physical world.
- | Author: Richard J. Trudeau
- | Publisher: Birkhauser
- | Publication Date: Apr 20, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 270 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0817642374
- | ISBN-13: 9780817642372
