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Geometry in History

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    Chapter 1 Plato on Geometry and the Geometers
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    Chapter 2 Topology and Biology: From Aristotle to Thom
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    Chapter 3 Time and Periodicity from Ptolemy to Schrödinger: Paradigm Shifts vs Continuity in History of Mathematics
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    Chapter 4 Convexity in Greek Antiquity
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    Chapter 5 On the Concept of Curve: Geometry and Algebra, from Mathematical Modernity to Mathematical Modernism
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    Chapter 6 From Euclid to Riemann and Beyond: How to Describe the Shape of the Universe
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    Chapter 7 A Path in History, from Curvature to Convexity
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    Chapter 8 The Axiomatic Destiny of the Theorems of Pappus and Desargues
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    Chapter 9 Projective Configuration Theorems: Old Wine into New Wineskins
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    Chapter 10 Poincaré’s Geometric Worldview and Philosophy
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    Chapter 11 Perturbing a Planar Rotation: Normal Hyperbolicity and Angular Twist
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    Chapter 12 René Thom and an Anticipated h-Principle
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    Chapter 13 Rigid and Flexible Facets of Symplectic Topology
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    Chapter 14 Flat Affine, Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historical Perspective
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    Chapter 15 Basic Aspects of Differential Geometry
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    Chapter 16 The Global Study of Riemannian-Finsler Geometry
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    Chapter 17 The Poincaré Conjecture and Related Statements
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    Chapter 18 A Glimpse into the Problems of the Fourth Dimension
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    Chapter 19 Memories from My Former Life: The Making of a Mathematician
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Title
Geometry in History
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2019
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3
ISBNs
978-3-03-013608-6, 978-3-03-013609-3
Editors

S. G. Dani, Athanase Papadopoulos

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Country Count As %
Unknown 13 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 2 15%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Researcher 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 6 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Mathematics 3 23%
Philosophy 2 15%
Engineering 2 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Unknown 5 38%