Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

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Summary: Warning for Math Readers
Review: With a title "Euclid's Window" one would expect this to by a book on mathematics and more specifically geometry. The first part of this book holds somewhat true to this belief and for that I would rate it very good and interesting. However, I had to stop reading it about 2/3 through because it had completely abandoned almost everything mathematical and seated itself firmly in the subject area of physics. If you do not mind that, and you have a general interest in math AND physics, you will probably enjoy the whole book. I am quite tired of the overwhelming plethora of physics and "wasn't Einstein such a genius" books that I just can not take it any more. I long for a book on just mathematics which this definitely is not. There are some very interesting mathematical things in this book (in the first half) which are well worth reading but please be warned that if you expect this to be a book about geometry you will probably be disappointed.