The elements of non-Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, by H. S. Carslaw.

CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. THE PARALLEL POSTULATE, AND THE WORK OF SACCHERI, LEGENDRE AND GAUSS. PAGE ~ 1. Euclid's treatment of parallels - - 1 ~ 2. The principle of continuity - - - 2 ~ 3. Some problems of construction - - - - - 5 ~ 4. Two theorems independent of the Parallel Postulate - - 8 ~ 5. The controversy regarding the Parallel Postulate - - 10 ~ 6. The work of Saccheri - --- 12 ~ 7. The work of Legendre -- - 15 ~ 8. The Postulate of Archimedes and the Parallel Postulate 18 ~ 9. The work of Gauss - -- 19 ~ 10. Gauss and Schweikart - - 21 ~ 11. Gauss and Taurinus 23 ~ 12. Gauss and Schumacher - 25 CHAPTER II. THE WORK OF BOLYAI, LOBATSCHEWSKY, AND RIEMANN, THE FOUNDERS OF THE NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES. ~ 13. John Bolyai, and his father Wolfgang - - 27 ~ 14. Bolyai's Appendix - --- 28 ~ 15. Bolyai's later years - - - 30 ~ 16. The work of Lobatschewsky - - -- 32 ~ 17. Lobatschewsky's Principles of Geometry 33 ~ 18. Gauss, Bolyai, and Lobatschewsky - - - 36 ~~ 19-20. The work of Riemann - --- 38

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The elements of non-Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, by H. S. Carslaw.
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Carslaw, H. S. (Horatio Scott), 1870-1954.
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London,: Longmans, Green and co.,
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Geometry, Non-Euclidean
Trigonometry

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