Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. ix
	The Story of Euclid
	The First Revolution	p. 3
	The Geometry of Taxation	p. 4
	Among the Seven Sages	p. 11
	The Secret Society	p. 17
	Euclid's Manifesto	p. 29
	A Beautiful Woman, a Library, and the End of Civilization	p. 39
	The Story of Descartes
	The Revolution in Place	p. 53
	The Origin of Latitude and Longitude	p. 55
	The Legacy of the Rotten Romans	p. 60
	The Discreet Charm of the Graph	p. 70
	A Soldier's Story	p. 79
	Iced by the Snow Queen	p. 90
	The Story of Gauss
	The Curved Space Revolution	p. 95
	The Trouble with Ptolemy	p. 98
	A Napoleonic Hero	p. 107
	The Fall of the Fifth Postulate	p. 115
	Lost in Hyperbolic Space	p. 121
	Some Insects Called the Human Race	p. 127
	A Tale of Two Aliens	p. 136
	After 2,000 Years, a Face-lift	p. 143
	The Story of Einstein
	Revolution at the Speed of Light	p. 153
	Relativity's Other Albert	p. 157
	The Stuff of Space	p. 163
	Probationary Technical Expert, Third Class	p. 176
	A Relatively Euclidean Approach	p. 182
	Einstein's Apple	p. 193
	From Inspiration to Perspiration	p. 205
	Blue Hair Triumphs	p. 210
	The Story of Witten
	The Weird Revolution	p. 217
	Ten Things I Hate About Your Theory	p. 219
	The Birth of Strings	p. 235
	The Necessary Uncertainty of Being	p. 223
	Clash of the Titans	p. 228
	A Message in a Kaluza-Klein Bottle	p. 231
	Particles, Schmarticles!	p. 239
	The Trouble with Strings	p. 249
	The Theory Formerly Known as Strings	p. 255
	Epilogue	p. 263
	Notes	p. 267
	Acknowledgments	p. 293
	Index	p. 295

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