Non-Euclidean geometry

Description:

Examines various attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate -- by the Greeks, Arabs and Renaissance mathematicians. Ranging through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it considers forerunners and founders such as Saccheri, Lambert, Legendre, W. Bolyai, Gauss, Schweikart, Taurinus, J. Bolyai and Lobachewsky.

subjects: Geometry, Non-Euclidean,  Geometry, Non-Euclidean. Non-Euclidean geometry; a critical and historical study,  Hyperbolic Geometry