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Saccheri’s attempt to prove the Parallel Postulate is today considered the most important breakthrough in geometry in the 18th century, as he was able to develop for hundreds of pages and dozens of theorems a system in geometry that denied the truth of the postulate (in the attempt to find a contradiction).
Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish
Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri
- Hardcover
381 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2014
Summary
This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri’s text by G.B. Halsted. It is complemented with a historical introduction on the geometrical environment of the time and a detailed commentary that helps to understand the aims and subtleties of the work.
Euclides vindicatus, written by the Jesuit mathematician Gerolamo Saccheri, was published in Milan in 17…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783319059655 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 3319059653 |
| Author: | Gerolamo Saccheri, Vincenzo De Risi, Linda Allegri, G.B. Halsted |
| Publisher: | Birkhauser Verlag AG |
| Imprint: | Birkhauser Verlag AG |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 381 |
| Edition: | 2014th |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 7.84kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 168mm |
| Series: | Classic Texts in the Sciences |
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“This is the first complete English edition of Saccheri’s Euclides vindicatus of 1733, and, with 55 pages of introduction, 99 pages of notes, 11 pages of bibliography, the definitive one. … The material in the introduction and the notes is of great interest to both historians of mathematics and to mathematicians … .” (Victor V. Pambuccian, zbMATH, Vol. 1303, 2015)Returns
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