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hyperbolic geometry
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type of non-Euclidean geometry
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- branch of mathematics
- Subclass of
- non-Euclidean geometry
- Part of
- non-Euclidean geometry
- Named after
- János Bolyai
- Image
- The modular group PSL 2(Z).svg
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- does not have characteristic
- parallel postulate
- Commons category
- Hyperbolic geometry
- topic's main category
- Category:Hyperbolic geometry
- discoverer or inventor
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Stack Exchange tag
- math.stackexchange.com/tags/hyperbolic-geometry
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Encyclopedic overview
Lines through a given point P and asymptotic to line R
Three-dimensional
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hyperbolic geometry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.