This book traces the history of how new results in mathematics have provided surprises to mathematicians through the ages, e.g. how 19th century mathematicians were surprised by the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry or how Godel's incompleteness theorem disappointed many logicians.
This book traces the history of how new results in mathematics have provided surprises to mathematicians through the ages or how Godel's incompleteness theorem disappointed many logicians. The ages are e.g..19th century mathematicians were surprised by the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry.