Euclid's window : the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace / Leonard Mlodinow.
Pubblicazione:
New York : The free press, c2001.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. Pt. 1. The story of Euclid: 1. The first revolution 2. The geometry of taxation 3. Among the seven sages 4. The segret society 5. Euclid's manifesto 6. A beautiful woman, a library, and the end of civilization. Pt. 2. The story of Descartes: 7. The revolution in place 8. The origin of latitude and longitude 9. The legacy of rotten Romans 10. The discreet charm of the graph 11. A soldier's story 12. Iced by the snow queen. Pt. 3. The story of Gauss: 13. The curved space revolution 14. The trouble with Ptolemy 15. A Napoleonic hero 16. The fall of the fifth postulate 17. Lost in hyperbolic space 18. Some insects called the human race 19. A tale of two aliens 20. After 2,000 years, a face-lift. Pt. 4. The story of Einstein: 21. Revolution at the speed of light 22. Relativity's other Albert 23. The stuff of space 24. Probationary technical expert, third class 25. A relatively Euclidean approach 26. Einstein's apple 27. From inspiration to perspiration 28. Blue hair triumphs. Pt. 5. The story of Witten: 29. The weird revolution 30. Ten things I hate about your theory 31. The necessary uncertainty of being 32. Clash of the Titans 33. A message in Kaluza-Klein bottle 34. The birth of strings 35. Particles, schmarticles! 36. The trouble with strings 37. The theory formerly known as strings. Epilogue. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index
