Thursday, August 20, 2009 – Gauss, Bolyai, Lobachevsky. Who Should Get Credit?
As a young 19 year old, in the fall of 1967, I walked into two Math classes at the University of Victoria that had a profound effect on the rest of my life. One was a computer programming class, and the other was a Projective Geometry, or Non-Euclidean Geometry class. Please click on the file name below to see the pdf file and read about the controversy generated with these “weird” geometries.
Gauss, Bolyai, Lobachevsky, Who Gets Credit?
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