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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
New paths of geometry in the 19 th century
Authors : Christoph J. Scriba, Peter Schreiber
Published in: 5000 Years of Geometry
Publisher: Springer Basel
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At the turn from the 18
th
to the 19
th
century, both the character of mathematics and its external conditions changed fundamentally. The industrialisation beginning in 1770 was the general background for technological development. However, political turmoil in Europe caused by the French Revolution and the following Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed civil ideas to almost every corner of Europe, also contributed greatly to the changes.