G. B. Halsted
American mathematician
Died when: 68 years 111 days (819 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
George Bruce Halsted (November 25, 1853 – March 16, 1922), usually cited as G.B.Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his own work and his many important translations.
Especially noteworthy were his translations and commentaries relating to non-Euclidean geometry, including works by Bolyai, Lobachevski, Saccheri, and Poincaré.He wrote an elementary geometry text, Rational Geometry, based on Hilbert's axioms, which was translated into French, German, and Japanese.
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