Through the "Window of Euclid," Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a lively and enjoyable journey through the five revolutions of geometry, from the ancient Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest ideas about hyperspace.

This is a completely new, fresh, alternative history of mathematics, which reveals how simple questions about space, which anyone could ask, have been the hidden driving force behind the highest achievements in science and technology.

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