Ideas of space: Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and relativistic  -  Jeremy Gray

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Account of the development of Euclidean, non-Euclidean and relativistic ideas of the shape of the universe. Jeremy Gray reviews the history of geometry from classical times and shows how it led to the formulation of Einstein's theories of special and general relativity which form the basis of our concept of the universe.
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