The Non-Euclidean Revolution
| Authors | Trudeau, Richard J. |
| Publisher | Birkhäuser |
| Published | 10 mag 1999 |
| Date | 04 set 2017 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | Amazon.com, oclc: 879621352, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2102-9, uri: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-2102-9, isbn: 9781461221029 |
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Cited in U. Notre Dame's historian of mathematics Crowe's:
- Crowe, Michael J. “Duhem and History and Philosophy of Mathematics.” Synthese 83, no. 3 (June 1, 1990): 431–47. doi:10.1007/BF00413427.
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. A portion of the book won the Pólya Prize, a distinguished award from the Mathematical Association of America.