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Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow — WisdomDeck honest review

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Euclid's Window

by Leonard Mlodinow

The story of geometry from Euclid to Descartes to Gauss to Einstein to string theory: how space was understood. Light history of ideas.

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Three things you will actually use

Space is a concept with a history.
Each revolution redefined it.
Geometry is physics.

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Read the chapter on Gauss.

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Mlodinow on geometry.

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