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    In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate...
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  • In the former case, one obtains hyperbolic geometry and elliptic geometry, the traditional non-Euclidean geometries. When the metric requirement is relaxed...
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    and +sinh(t) respectively. Hyperbolic functions occur in the calculations of angles and distances in hyperbolic geometry. They also occur in the solutions...
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  • overstatement or exaggeration), or to hyperbolic geometry. The following phenomena are described as hyperbolic because they manifest hyperbolas, not because...
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  • spherical geometry is not an absolute geometry. The theorems of absolute geometry hold in hyperbolic geometry, which is a non-Euclidean geometry, as well...
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    In hyperbolic geometry, a hyperbolic triangle is a triangle in the hyperbolic plane. It consists of three line segments called sides or edges and three...
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    topic of hyperbolic geometry. Sometimes the qualificative "real" is added to differentiate it from complex hyperbolic spaces, quaternionic hyperbolic spaces...
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  • geometry hold in hyperbolic geometry as well as in Euclidean geometry. Absolute geometry is inconsistent with elliptic geometry: in elliptic geometry...
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  • affine geometries and Euclidean geometry is a special instance of this type of geometry. In some other geometries, such as hyperbolic geometry, lines...
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  • one of three geometries (Euclidean, spherical, or hyperbolic). In three dimensions, it is not always possible to assign a single geometry to a whole topological...
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    Poincaré disk model (category Hyperbolic geometry)
    In geometry, the Poincaré disk model, also called the conformal disk model, is a model of 2-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which all points are inside...
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  • transformation geometry soon appreciates the significance of Felix Klein's Erlangen program, an outgrowth of certain models of hyperbolic geometry The combination...
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    Sum of angles of a triangle (category Geometry)
    how hyperbolic geometry breaks Playfair's axiom, Proclus' axiom (the parallelism, defined as non-intersection, is intransitive in an hyperbolic plane)...
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    spherical geometry as far back as antiquity. It also relates to astronomy, the geodesy of the Earth, and later the study of hyperbolic geometry by Lobachevsky...
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    satisfying certain properties abstracted from classical hyperbolic geometry. The notion of a hyperbolic group was introduced and developed by Mikhail Gromov (1987)...
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    Descartes' theorem (category Euclidean plane geometry)
    definition of curvature, the theorem also applies in spherical geometry and hyperbolic geometry. In higher dimensions, an analogous quadratic equation applies...
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    Horocycle (category Hyperbolic geometry)
    In hyperbolic geometry, a horocycle (from Greek roots meaning "boundary circle"), sometimes called an oricycle or limit circle, is a curve of constant...
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    model and the Poincaré disk model, to show that hyperbolic geometry was equiconsistent with Euclidean geometry. This model is conformal which means that the...
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  • stimulated the development of non-Euclidean geometry generally, including hyperbolic geometry. Elliptic geometry has a variety of properties that differ from...
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  • Gromov, generalizes the metric properties of classical hyperbolic geometry and of trees. Hyperbolicity is a large-scale property, and is very useful to the...
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  • of hyperbolic geometry. In the early 17th century, there were two important developments in geometry. The first was the creation of analytic geometry, or...
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  • plane in hyperbolic geometry are used. This article tries to give an overview of several coordinate systems in use for the two-dimensional hyperbolic plane...
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    common use: inverse hyperbolic sine, inverse hyperbolic cosine, inverse hyperbolic tangent, inverse hyperbolic cosecant, inverse hyperbolic secant, and inverse...
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    often made use of tessellations, both in ordinary Euclidean geometry and in hyperbolic geometry, for artistic effect. Tessellations are sometimes employed...
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    reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical...
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  • speculations of Lobachevski and Bolyai concerning hyperbolic geometry by providing models for the hyperbolic plane: for example, the Poincaré disc model where...
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    B\sin C\cos a.\end{aligned}}} In hyperbolic geometry, a pair of equations are collectively known as the hyperbolic law of cosines. The first is cosh...
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    Horosphere (category Hyperbolic geometry)
    In hyperbolic geometry, a horosphere (or parasphere) is a specific hypersurface in hyperbolic n-space. It is the boundary of a horoball, the limit of a...
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    y={\sqrt {1+x^{2}}}}. The area of such hyperbolic sectors has been used to define hyperbolic distance in a geometry textbook. Squeeze mapping V.G. Ashkinuse...
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    Parallel postulate (category Elementary geometry)
    Note that the latter two definitions are not equivalent, because in hyperbolic geometry the second definition holds only for ultraparallel lines. From the...
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