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Non-Euclidean Geometries


Non-Euclidean Geometries

János Bolyai Memorial Volume
Mathematics and Its Applications, Band 581

von: András Prékopa, Emil Molnár

149,79 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 03.06.2006
ISBN/EAN: 9780387295558
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 506

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<P>"From nothing I have created a new different world," wrote János Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today. The results of Bolyai and the co-discoverer, the Russian Lobachevskii, changed the course of mathematics, opened the way for modern physical theories of the twentieth century, and had an impact on the history of human culture.</P>
<P>The papers in this volume, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of János Bolyai, were written by leading scientists of non-Euclidean geometry, its history, and its applications. Some of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, others deal with geometrical axiomatics; polyhedra; fractals; hyperbolic, Riemannian and discrete geometry; tilings; visualization; and applications in physics.</P>
History.- The Revolution of János Bolyai.- Gauss and Non-Euclidean Geometry.- János Bolyai’s New Face.- Axiomatical and Logical Aspects.- Hyperbolic Geometry, Dimension-Free.- An Absolute Property of Four Mutually Tangent Circles.- Remembering Donald Coxeter.- Axiomatizations of Hyperbolic and Absolute Geometries.- Logical Axiomatizations of Space-Time. Samples from the Literature.- Polyhedra, Volumes, Discrete Arrangements, Fractals.- Structures in Hyperbolic Space.- The Symmetry of Optimally Dense Packings.- Flexible Octahedra in the Hyperbolic Space.- Fractal Geometry on Hyperbolic Manifolds.- A Volume Formula for Generalised Hyperbolic Tetrahedra.- Tilings, Orbifolds and Manifolds, Visualization.- The Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds of Dimension at Least 4.- Real-Time Animation in Hyperbolic, Spherical, and Product Geometries.- On Spontaneous Surgery on Knots and Links.- Classification of Tile-Transitive 3-Simplex Tilings and Their Realizations in Homogeneous Spaces.- Differential Geometry.- Non-Euclidean Analysis.- Holonomy, Geometry and Topology of Manifolds with Grassmann Structure.- Hypersurfaces of Type Number 2 in the Hyperbolic Four-Space and Their Extensions To Riemannian Geometry.- How Far Does Hyperbolic Geometry Generalize?.- Geometry of the Point Finsler Spaces.- Physics.- Black Hole Perturbations.- Placing the Hyperbolic Geometry of Bolyai and Lobachevsky Centrally in Special Relativity Theory: An Idea Whose Time has Returned.
<P>"From nothing I have created a new different world,” wrote János Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today. The results of Bolyai and the co-discoverer, the Russian Lobachevskii, changed the course of mathematics, opened the way for modern physical theories of the twentieth century, and had an impact on the history of human culture. </P>
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<P>The papers in this&nbsp;volume, which commemorates the 200<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary of the birth of János Bolyai,&nbsp;were written by leading scientists of non-Euclidean geometry, its history, and its applications. Some of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, others deal with geometrical axiomatics; polyhedra; fractals; hyperbolic, Riemannian and discrete geometry; tilings; visualization; and applications in physics.</P>
<P><EM>Audience</EM></P>
<P>This book is intended for those who teach, study, and do research in geometry and history of mathematics.&nbsp;Cultural historians, physicists, and computer scientists will also find it an important source of information. </P>
Focuses specifically on the contributions of János Bolyai to non-Euclidean geometry Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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