Sources

 This is a list of the books and sites that I have been using for my research. Most information presented in other blog posts comes from one of the following sources.

Fake Spheres?

   Just as the sphere models elliptic geometry, the "pseudosphere" is the model of hyperbolic geometry. It is, however, a bit less well-known than its elliptic counterpart.

It's All Greek at Heart

The first great mathematicians were all Greek. As Leonard Mlodinow said of the Egyptians and Babylonians that came before the Greek, "like our political leaders, they sometimes accomplished astonishing feats with surprisingly little comprehension of what they were doing. Nor did they care." The Greeks, on the other hand, did care. And so while the Egyptians built pyramids with their knowledge, the Greek mathematicians-- Euclid, Pythagoras, Thales, Eratosthenes, Archimedes, Hypatia, and many more-- are immortalized through their work in the creation of the system of mathematics and logic called geometry.