Why Did Lagrange "Prove" the Parallel Postulate?

DOI10.4169/193009709X469779MaRDI QIDQ3606423zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Judith V. Grabiner

Publication date 26 February 2009

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/193009709x469779

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangenon-Euclidean geometryparallel postulate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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