What Is Geometry?

DOI10.2307/2324574MaRDI QIDQ5748507zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shiing-Shen Chern

Publication date 1990

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

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/1d11ce5ed8f0d6de27a380f7dd178241f13f8750

zbMATH Keywords

CartanDescartesEuclidGaussgeometryhistorical developmentKleinRiemann

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of mathematics of the indigenous cultures of Europe (pre-Greek, etc.) (01A15) History of geometry (51-03) History of differential geometry (53-03)

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