Non-Euclidean Geometries János Bolyai Memorial Volume /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Prékopa, András (Editor), Molnár, Emil (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Mathematics and Its Applications ; 581
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry.; Differential geometry.; History.; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Complex manifolds.; Gravitation.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Differential Geometry.; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

"From nothing I have created a new different world,” wrote János Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today. The results of Bolyai and the co-discoverer, the Russian Lobachevskii, changed the course of...