Thinking the unthinkable. The reception of non-Euclidean geometry in the German-speaking countries (1860--1900)

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-37722-8zbMath1288.01003OpenAlexW2488302592MaRDI QIDQ2393419

Klaus Thomas Volkert

Publication date: 7 August 2013

Published in: Mathematik im Kontext (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37722-8

zbMATH Keywords

parallelismnon-Euclidean geometrymodels of non-Euclidean geometrynon-Euclidean geometry at high-schools

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of geometry (51-03)

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