May 02, 2024  
2010-2011 HillBook (Class of 2014) 
    
2010-2011 HillBook (Class of 2014) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

MTH 193 - The Non-Euclidean Revolution

Three Credits
Fall Semester

Book I of Euclid’s Elements; Plato and Kant on geometry; Euclid’s controversial fifth postulate; Lobachevsky’s alternative geometry. An intellectual adventure spanning 2100 years, whose outcome changed the way mathematicians view their subject.