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LOBATSCHEWSKY shares with the Bolyais the credit of founding the theory of non-Euclidean geometry, in which Euclid's axiom of parallels is not assumed to be true. His “Pangéométrie” was communicated to the mathematical faculty of the University of Kazan in 1855 on the occasion of his jubilee; this fact might well have been indicated in the present reprint. It is the author's last and most complete exposition of his theory, and mathematicians will be glad to have it in this accessible form, though, like other similar reprints, it is rather trying to the eyesight.
Pangéométrie; ou Précis de Géométrie fondée sur une Théorie générale et rigoureuse des Parallèles.
By N. J. Lobatschewsky. Réimpression facsimilé conforme à l'édition originale. Pp. 279–340, and list of errata. (Paris: A. Hermann, 1905.) Price 5 francs.
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Pangéométrie; ou Précis de Géométrie fondée sur une Théorie générale et rigoureuse des Parallèles . Nature 73, 100 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073100c0
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