Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries Development and History

This book presents the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry and the subsequent reformulation of the foundations of Euclidean geometry as a suspense story. The mystery of why Euclid's parallel postulate could not be proved remained unsolved for more than two thousand years, until the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry and its Euclidean models revealed the impossibility of any such proof