Above and Beyond: How Women Astronomers and Astronauts Brought Space Down to EarthJoin author Dale DeBakcsy on a tour through two thousand years of women's contributions to the study and exploration of space, from the first Babylonian astronomers to the women directing planetary surveys and working in space.Dale is the author of A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration and ...
The geometry of the ancient Greeks took place on an ideal, infinite, flat plane. In the millenia since then, mathematicians have opened our minds to the more general and flexible geometries of curved spaces - from the fabric that makes up our clothing, to the spacetime around a black hole. ...
