In the former case, one obtains hyperbolic geometry and elliptic geometry, the traditional non-Euclidean geometries. When the metric requirement is relaxed... 44 KB (6,013 words) - 04:15, 7 April 2024 |
overstatement or exaggeration), or to hyperbolic geometry. The following phenomena are described as hyperbolic because they manifest hyperbolas, not because... 3 KB (426 words) - 03:38, 18 March 2024 |
spherical geometry is not an absolute geometry. The theorems of absolute geometry hold in hyperbolic geometry, which is a non-Euclidean geometry, as well... 8 KB (1,073 words) - 21:46, 3 August 2023 |
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... 13 KB (1,657 words) - 18:14, 1 April 2024 |
geometry hold in hyperbolic geometry as well as in Euclidean geometry. Absolute geometry is inconsistent with elliptic geometry: in elliptic geometry... 76 KB (10,876 words) - 17:07, 31 March 2023 |
affine geometries and Euclidean geometry is a special instance of this type of geometry. In some other geometries, such as hyperbolic geometry, lines... 22 KB (2,736 words) - 21:56, 10 February 2024 |
Geometrization conjecture (redirect from Thurston model geometry) 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... 31 KB (4,049 words) - 01:04, 26 March 2024 |
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... 26 KB (3,970 words) - 23:55, 1 March 2024 |
transformation geometry soon appreciates the significance of Felix Klein's Erlangen program, an outgrowth of certain models of hyperbolic geometry The combination... 30 KB (4,378 words) - 02:03, 11 April 2024 |
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)... 7 KB (784 words) - 13:27, 27 April 2024 |
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... 50 KB (6,350 words) - 00:25, 24 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,291 words) - 06:28, 8 November 2023 |
stimulated the development of non-Euclidean geometry generally, including hyperbolic geometry. Elliptic geometry has a variety of properties that differ from... 18 KB (2,682 words) - 17:03, 16 April 2024 |
Gromov, generalizes the metric properties of classical hyperbolic geometry and of trees. Hyperbolicity is a large-scale property, and is very useful to the... 20 KB (3,149 words) - 18:42, 22 January 2024 |
of hyperbolic geometry. In the early 17th century, there were two important developments in geometry. The first was the creation of analytic geometry, or... 100 KB (9,874 words) - 21:48, 22 March 2024 |
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... 15 KB (2,291 words) - 14:57, 18 August 2023 |
Tessellation (redirect from Tiling (geometry)) often made use of tessellations, both in ordinary Euclidean geometry and in hyperbolic geometry, for artistic effect. Tessellations are sometimes employed... 58 KB (6,042 words) - 12:53, 25 April 2024 |
M. C. Escher (section Infinity and hyperbolic geometry) reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical... 60 KB (6,255 words) - 09:12, 25 February 2024 |
speculations of Lobachevski and Bolyai concerning hyperbolic geometry by providing models for the hyperbolic plane: for example, the Poincaré disc model where... 39 KB (5,092 words) - 01:36, 31 March 2024 |
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... 36 KB (5,652 words) - 01:30, 21 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (381 words) - 17:01, 28 June 2022 |
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... 25 KB (3,235 words) - 11:47, 21 December 2023 |