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001    ocn2ocm13765771 
003    OCoLC 
005    20100528091138.0 
008    080314s2009    nju      b    001 0 eng   
010    2008012187 
020    9780470149096 (cloth) 
020    0470149094 (cloth) 
035    (OCoLC)213765771 
040    DLC|cDLC|dYDXCP|dBAKER|dBTCTA|dC#P|dBWX|dCDX|dIXA|dMOF
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049    TTNM 
050 00 QA481|b.B237 2009 
100 1  Bardi, Jason Socrates. 
245 14 The fifth postulate :|bhow unraveling a two-thousand-year-
       old mystery unraveled the universe /|cJason Socrates 
       Bardi. 
260    Hoboken, N.J. :|bJohn Wiley & Sons,|cc2009. 
300    xi, 253 p. ;|c25 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-244) and 
       index. 
505 0  A mathematician's Waterloo -- The strange vegetarian cult 
       and mathematics -- The mystery maker -- Those false and 
       would-be proofs -- A codebreaker's fix -- Searching for 
       Ceres -- The dim light of exhaustion -- Gauss's little 
       secret -- Lessons of curvature -- To stir the nests of 
       wasps -- A strange new world -- A message for you, 
       Ambassador -- "To praise it would be to praise myself" -- 
       The birth of electronic communication -- The imaginary man
       from Kazan -- The soul of the universe -- The curvature of
       space. 
650  0 Parallels (Geometry) 
650  0 Geometry, Plane. 
650  0 Pythagorean theorem.