If you took Geometry in High School, you almost definitely learned it as a subject based on rules and axioms discovered by the ancient Greeks. The details of this subject, which I must admit was ...
THIS is a philosophical thesis by a writer who is really familiar with the subject of non-Euclidean geometry, and as such it is well worth reading. The first three chapters are historical; the ...
MR. FRANKLAND (NATURE, September 7) has raised the old problem of Bertrand's proof of the parallel-axiom by a consideration of infinite areas. This is perhaps the most subtle and the most specious of ...
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