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This short, delightful book is essential reading for those educated in the liberal and fine arts who have never had the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of mathematics and physics. Osserman, a Stanford University professor who developed a math and physics course for humanities majors, manages to convey some of the fascination of these two fields without getting involved in technical details and without talking down to his audience. His seamless development leads the reader almost effortlessly from the early efforts of the ancients to measure the earth through the open problems in modern cosmology. Strongly recommended.
Harold D. Shane, Baruch Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Wall Street Journal, February 17, 1995
In 1854 Riemann conjectured that the universe as a whole might be non-Euclidean in nature, curving into a "hypersphere" - the higher-dimensional equivalent of a sphere. Mr. Osserman justly calls Riemann's spherical universe "one of the most original and radical departures from the standard world-view in the history of science." And through a series of deft analogies - drawing on everything from the history of cartography to Dante's "Divine Comedy" - he gets the reader to appreciate its extraordinary elegance and power. "To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature," the physicist Richard Feynman once said. The charm of Mr. Osserman's little book is that, using images rather than equations, it conveys just the right amount of mathematics - enough so that you can start to savor the poetry of the universe in its original language.
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This short, delightful book is essential reading for those educated in the liberal and fine arts who have never had the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of mathematics and physics. Osserman, a Stanford University professor who developed a math and physics course for humanities majors, manages to convey some of the fascination of these two fields without getting involved in technical details and without talking down to his audience. His seamless development leads the reader almost effortlessly from the early efforts of the ancients to measure the earth through the open problems in modern cosmology. Strongly recommended.
Harold D. Shane, Baruch Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Wall Street Journal, February 17, 1995
In 1854 Riemann conjectured that the universe as a whole might be non-Euclidean in nature, curving into a "hypersphere" - the higher-dimensional equivalent of a sphere. Mr. Osserman justly calls Riemann's spherical universe "one of the most original and radical departures from the standard world-view in the history of science." And through a series of deft analogies - drawing on everything from the history of cartography to Dante's "Divine Comedy" - he gets the reader to appreciate its extraordinary elegance and power. "To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature," the physicist Richard Feynman once said. The charm of Mr. Osserman's little book is that, using images rather than equations, it conveys just the right amount of mathematics - enough so that you can start to savor the poetry of the universe in its original language.
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