Euclid's Window

The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

By: MLODINOW

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Paperback | 9 April 2002

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Through Euclid''s Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.
Based on Mlodinow''s extensive historical research; his studies alongside colleagues such as Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne; and interviews with leading physicists and mathematicians such as Murray Gell-Mann, Edward Witten, and Brian Greene, Euclid''s Window is an extraordinary blend of rigorous, authoritative investigation and accessible, good-humored storytelling that makes a stunningly original argument asserting the primacy of geometry. For those who have looked through Euclid''s Window, no space, no thing, and no time will ever be quite the same.

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Brian Greene author of The Elegant Universe There is perhaps no better way to prepare for the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow than to learn the language of geometry, and Euclid's Window makes this task lively and enjoyable.
Curt Suplee The Washington Post High-spirited, splendidly lucid and often hilarious.
Michael Guillen author of Five Equations That Changed the World How often can you say that a book on math -- on math! -- is a real page-turner? Well, this one is. As engaging as a soap opera, as fascinating as a whodunit, as funny as the Sunday comics, Mlodinow's book is storytelling at its best.

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Non-Fiction Mathematics History of Mathematics Science Science in General Popular Science Geometry

Introduction	p. ix
The Story of Euclid
The First Revolution	p. 3
The Geometry of Taxation	p. 4
Among the Seven Sages	p. 11
The Secret Society	p. 17
Euclid's Manifesto	p. 29
A Beautiful Woman, a Library, and the End of Civilization	p. 39
The Story of Descartes
The Revolution in Place	p. 53
The Origin of Latitude and Longitude	p. 55
The Legacy of the Rotten Romans	p. 60
The Discreet Charm of the Graph	p. 70
A Soldier's Story	p. 79
Iced by the Snow Queen	p. 90
The Story of Gauss
The Curved Space Revolution	p. 95
The Trouble with Ptolemy	p. 98
A Napoleonic Hero	p. 107
The Fall of the Fifth Postulate	p. 115
Lost in Hyperbolic Space	p. 121
Some Insects Called the Human Race	p. 127
A Tale of Two Aliens	p. 136
After 2,000 Years, a Face-lift	p. 143
The Story of Einstein
Revolution at the Speed of Light	p. 153
Relativity's Other Albert	p. 157
The Stuff of Space	p. 163
Probationary Technical Expert, Third Class	p. 176
A Relatively Euclidean Approach	p. 182
Einstein's Apple	p. 193
From Inspiration to Perspiration	p. 205
Blue Hair Triumphs	p. 210
The Story of Witten
The Weird Revolution	p. 217
Ten Things I Hate About Your Theory	p. 219
The Necessary Uncertainty of Being	p. 223
Clash of the Titans	p. 228
A Message in a Kaluza-Klein Bottle	p. 231
The Birth of Strings	p. 235
Particles, Schmarticles!	p. 239
The Trouble with Strings	p. 249
The Theory Formerly Known as Strings	p. 255
Epilogue	p. 263
Notes	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 293
Index	p. 295
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