Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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Title/Author: |
Geometry in history/ edited by S. G. Dani, Athanase Papadopoulos. |
other author: |
Dani, S. G. |
Published: |
Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2019., |
Description: |
xvi, 750 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. |
[NT 15003449]: |
Plato on Geometry and the Geometers -- Topology and Biology: From Aristotle to Thom -- Time and eriodicity from Ptolemy to Schrodinger: Paradigm Shifts vs Continuity in History of Mathematics -- Convexity in Greek Antiquity -- On the Concept of Curve: Geometry and Algebra, fromMathematicalModernity to MathematicalModernism -- From Euclid to Riemann and Beyond: How to Describe the Shape of the Universe -- A Path in History, from Curvature to Convexity -- The Axiomatic Destiny of the Theorems of Pappus and Desargues -- Projective Configuration Theorems: Old Wine into New Wineskins -- Poincare's GeometricWorldview and Philosophy -- Perturbing a Planar Rotation: Normal Hyperbolicity and Angular Twist -- Rene Thom and an Anticipated h-Principle -- Rigid and Flexible Facets of Symplectic Topology -- Flat Affine, Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historical Perspective -- Basic Aspects of Differential Geometry -- The Global Study of Riemannian-Finsler Geometry -- The Poincare Conjecture and Related Statements -- A Glimpse into the Problems of the Fourth Dimension -- Memories fromMy Former Life: The Making of a Mathematician -- Index. |
Contained By: |
Springer eBooks |
Subject: |
Geometry - History. - |
Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3 |
ISBN: |
9783030136093 |