Foundations of Geometry: Euclidean, Bolyai Lobachevskian, Projective - Euclidean, Bolyai-Lobachevskian, and Projective Geometry

Informationen zum Autor Karol Borsuk (1905-82) was a prominent Polish mathematician and expert on topology and shape theory. He taught at Warsaw University and was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Wanda Szmielew (1918-76) was a Polish mathematical logician who received her PhD at Berkeley in 1950, studying with Alfred Tarski. She is also the author of From Affine to Euclidean Geometry: An Axiomatic Approach. Klappentext Part One of this comprehensive treatment develops Euclidean and Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry on the basis of a Hilbert system, and Part Two explores projective geometry in much the same way. 1960 edition.

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• Authors: Karol Borsuk, Wanda Szmielew
• Assisted by: Erwin Marquit (Translation)
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780486828091
• ISBN: 978-0-486-82809-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Dover Books on Mathematics; Dover Books on Mathematics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry