Euclid's Window: From Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow

Euclid's Window: From Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard MlodinowIn Euclid's Window, Leonard Mlondinow takes us on a brilliantly entertaining journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world around us. Ever since Pythagoras hatched a 'little scheme' to invent a set of rules describing the entire universe, scientists and mathematicians have tried to seek order in the cosmos: Euclid, who in 300BC defined the nature of space; Descartes, a fourteenth

• Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find)

Ana discovers more about her own desires

Here is a quantity that turns arithmetic on its head

compassion and enormous power

Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family

Selected from the books And the Weak Suffer What They Must

A phenomenal tale of strength and valour

a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White uncovered a set of ancient bones in Ethiopia’s Afar region

Liz loves India

John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter

The world’s best-known Hindu

whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered feelings of love