TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Amir R. TI - Proof!: how the world became geometrical SN - 9780374254902 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Scientific American, Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Geometry KW - History KW - Popular works N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-288) and index; Introduction -- Part I. How the world became geometrical. The mirror image -- The geometrical code -- Part II. Euclid's kingdom. Royal geometries -- The return of the king -- The king's garden -- Part III. The Sun King's touch. Beyond Versailles -- The Euclidean Republic -- Conclusion: The non-Euclidean world N2 - "An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world"-- ER -