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Geometry in History
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Plato on Geometry and the Geometers
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Topology and Biology: From Aristotle to Thom
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Time and Periodicity from Ptolemy to Schrödinger: Paradigm Shifts vs Continuity in History of Mathematics
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Convexity in Greek Antiquity
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 On the Concept of Curve: Geometry and Algebra, from Mathematical Modernity to Mathematical Modernism
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 From Euclid to Riemann and Beyond: How to Describe the Shape of the Universe
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 A Path in History, from Curvature to Convexity
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 The Axiomatic Destiny of the Theorems of Pappus and Desargues
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Projective Configuration Theorems: Old Wine into New Wineskins
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Poincaré’s Geometric Worldview and Philosophy
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 Perturbing a Planar Rotation: Normal Hyperbolicity and Angular Twist
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 René Thom and an Anticipated h-Principle
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 13 Rigid and Flexible Facets of Symplectic Topology
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 14 Flat Affine, Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historical Perspective
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 15 Basic Aspects of Differential Geometry
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 16 The Global Study of Riemannian-Finsler Geometry
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 17 The Poincaré Conjecture and Related Statements
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 18 A Glimpse into the Problems of the Fourth Dimension
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 19 Memories from My Former Life: The Making of a Mathematician