A Simple Non-Euclidean Geometry and Its Physical Basis: An Elementary Account of Galilean Geometry and the Galilean Principle of Relativity

by Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom

There are many technical and popular accounts, both in Russian and in other languages, of the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, a few of which are listed in the Bibliography. This geometry, also called hyperbolic geometry, is part of the required subject matter of many mathematics departments in universities and teachers' colleges-a reflec- tion of the view that familiarity with the elements of hyperbolic geometry is a useful part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387903321
• ISBN13: 9780387903323
• Release Date: February 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"