9780756784287 / 075678428X  Euclid's Window: The Story of
Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace   Publisher:Diane Pub
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checkout.  About the book:   Mlodinow reveals how geometry's
first revolution began with a "little" scheme hatched by
Pythagoras: the invention of a system of abstract rules that
could model the universe. That modest idea was the basis of
scientific civilization. But further advance was halted when the
Western mind nodded off into the Dark Ages. Finally in the
fourteenth century an obscure bishop in France invented the
graph and heralded the next revolution: the marriage of geometry
and number. Then, while intrepid mariners were sailing back and
forth across the Atlantic to the New World, a fifteen-year-old
genius realized that, like the earth's surface, space could be
curved. Could parallel lines really mee