Showing posts with label Lobachevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lobachevsky. Show all posts

Friday, May 7, 2010

Hyperbolic Geometry - Index

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Hyperbolic geometry, also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry, is a non-Euclidean geometry, meaning that the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced.

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Hyperbolic Geometry - Index.
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Monday, April 13, 2009

The Abel Prize: Drawing parallels in geometry

Mikhail Gromov has been awarded the Abel Prize for his work making sense of the range of geometries that appeared in the 19th century and he is a worthy successor to the likes of Euclid, Riemann and Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky.



 The Abel Prize: Drawing parallels in geometry.

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