Synopsis
The first translation into English of the 19th-century papers by Beltrami, Klein, and PoincarT that brought hyperbolic geometry into the mainstream of mathematics. Substantial introductions to each of the six papers set the context and point out their contributions to such modern studies as low-dimensional geometry and topology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Review
"Translations are well done and very readable ... papers ... are well chosen ... an extremely attractive and valuable book to have and to read ... fills an important niche in the mathematical literature by making these papers available to a contemporary audience ... allows the modern reader to see how the great mathematicians of another time viewed both their subject and mathematics in general, a view which can still be inspirational." ---- Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
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