Henry Carter Hull

Selected Shorts has toured The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and others. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.

In the present text, we present a brief introduction to non-Euclidean geometries. We begin by presenting the foundations of classical geometry, and the discussion that gave rise to other geometries. There is an incredibly old example of an attempt to demonstrate the fifth postulate of Euclid due to Proclus, and part of Sacheri's work is retaken, to continue later with the achievements of Lobachevsky. In simple terms, the geometry to which we are accustomed,...