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In the Search for Beauty – Smilga

Posted on April 30, 2013 by The Mitr

In an earlier post we have seen a wonderful book on special relativity titled Relativity and Man by V. Smilga. In that post, it was pointed out another book by this wonderful author titled In theSearch for Beauty, which has … Continue reading →

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Little Mathematics Library – Lobachevskian Geometry

Posted on February 6, 2012 by damitr

We now come to Lobachevskian Geometry by A. S. Smogorzhevsky in the Little Mathematics Library series.As the title of the book suggests the book is about one of the non-Euclidean geometries viz. the one by Lobachevsky. The back cover of … Continue reading →

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