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Geometry and the imagination

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Ams Chelsea Publishing, 1999 - Mathematics - 357 pages

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Yesterday, I learned what an oblate spheroid is. Also a prolate spheroid (which I hadn't heard of before.) If you rotate an ellipse on its major (longer) axis you get a prolate spheroid (which looks ... Read full review

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Geometry and the Imagination. ea Maxwell. The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. ... Geometry and the Imagination. By D. HILBERT and S. COHN-VOSSEN; translated by ...
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Geometry and the Imagination. Xiong Dan. An academic exercise presented in partial fulfillment for the degree of. Bachelor of Science with Honours in ...
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was based on a course ‘Geometry and the Imagination’ which we had ... workshop entitled ’Geometry and the Imagination’, led by John Conway, Pe- ...
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About the author (1999)

Born in Konigsberg, Germany, David Hilbert was professor of mathematics at Gottingen from 1895 to1930. Hilbert was among the earliest adherents of Cantor's new transfinite set theory. Despite the controversy that arose over the subject, Hilbert maintained that "no one shall drive us from this paradise (of the infinite)" (Hilbert, "Uber das Unendliche," Mathematische Annalen [1926]). It has been said that Hilbert was the last of the great universalist mathematicians and that he was knowledgeable in every area of mathematics, making important contributions to all of them (the same has been said of Poincare). Hilbert's publications include impressive works on algebra and number theory (by applying methods of analysis he was able to solve the famous "Waring's Problem"). Hilbert also made many contributions to analysis, especially the theory of functions and integral equations, as well as mathematical physics, logic, and the foundations of mathematics. His work of 1899, Grundlagen der Geometrie, brought Hilbert's name to international prominence, because it was based on an entirely new understanding of the nature of axioms. Hilbert adopted a formalist view and stressed the significance of determining the consistency and independence of the axioms in question. In 1900 he again captured the imagination of an international audience with his famous "23 unsolved problems" of mathematics, many of which became major areas of intensive research in this century. Some of the problems remain unresolved to this day. At the end of his career, Hilbert became engrossed in the problem of providing a logically satisfactory foundation for all of mathematics. As a result, he developed a comprehensive program to establish the consistency of axiomatized systems in terms of a metamathematical proof theory. In 1925, Hilbert became ill with pernicious anemia---then an incurable disease. However, because Minot had just discovered a treatment, Hilbert lived for another 18 years.

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TitleGeometry and the imagination
Volume 87 of AMS Chelsea Publishing Series
AuthorsDAVID AUTOR HILBERT, Stephan Cohn-Vossen
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherAms Chelsea Publishing, 1999
ISBN0821819984, 9780821819982
Length357 pages
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Mathematics / Geometry / Non-Euclidean
  
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