Graphical Proof of the Main Theorem of Non-Euclidean Geometry

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Сафиулина ◽  
Yu. Safiulina ◽  
Шмурнов ◽  
V. Shmurnov

The tragedy for the pioneers of non-Euclidean geometry (N. Lobachevsky and J. Boyai) was their quarrel with the scientific tradition. Figuratively speaking, in the judgment of the scientific world they could not provide proof of their views, and substantive law of science was not on their side despite the efforts of such an influential advocate as Karl Friedrich Gauss. They lost the civil process to the scientific layman, who sincerely believed that the earth is flat. Traditionally mathematical logic considers a new idea proven, if it is derived by inference from already proven ones, or recognized as obvious, or recognized without proof (postulates). Yet the founders of non-Euclidean geometry could not imagine such traditional evidence at all desire, because it had not yet been developed, and most importantly respective starting points (axioms, postulates, and theorems) had not been recognized by mathematicians. The paper outlines the original concept of non-Euclidean geometries. Hyperbolic geometry of Lobachevsky is considered based on viewing the sphere as a surface of zero curvature. In this case, the plane will have a real curvature properties of hyperboloid or a pseudosphere depending on the absolute and space anisotropy index, which replaces the concept of curvature of space; i.e. the notion of the curvature of the surface is converted to purely analytical attributes. Parabolic geometry of Euclid with degenerate absolute becomes a special case of geometries with non-degenerate absolute. The geometry of Riemann having the absolute of imaginary surface with negative Gaussian curvature at all points is declared not real but imaginary, since, according to the authors, it is impossible for plotting. References to textbooks of mechanics and mathematics departments of universities.

1919 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-198
Author(s):  
F. A. Foraker

Leibnitz and Descartes made remarkable contributions to both mathematics and philosophy. Newton obtains a high rank in the history of the former subject, but only a minor place in the history of philosophy, while Kant, who possessed a well-founded knowledge of the science and mathematics of his time, receives one of the foremost positions in the history of philosophy. Upon the basis of these facts, if we neglect a few of the lesser lights, the statement is often made that there is a relationship between the study of mathematics and the study of philosophy, and that he who studies one of them will also find himself a devotee in the pursuit of the other.


1909 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Duncan M.Y. Sommerville

Non-Euclidean geometry in the narrowest sense is that system of geometry which is usually associated with the names of Lobachevskij and Bolyai, and which arose from the substitution for Euclid's parallel-postulate of a postulate admitting an infinity of lines through a fixed point not intersecting a given line, the two limits between the intersectors and the non-intersectors being called the parallels to the given line through the fixed point. In a wider sense, any system of geometry which denies one or more of the fundamental assumptions upon which Euclid's system is based is a non-euclidean geometry. Of special interest are, however, those which touch only the question of parallel lines ; and there exists, in addition to Lobachevskij's geometry, another, commonly associated with the name of Riemann, in which the parallels to any line through a fixed point are imaginary. The three geometries, Lobachevskij's, Euclid's, and Riemann's, thus form a trio characterised by the existence of real, coincident, or imaginary pairs of parallels through a given point to a given line. With reference to this criterion, a consistent nomenclature was introduced by Klein, who called these three geometries respectively Hyperbolic, Parabolic, and Elliptic.


2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ullrich

AbstractFriedrich Engel and David Hilbert learned to know each other at Leipzig in 1885 and exchanged letters in particular during the next 15 years which contain interesting information on the academic life of mathematicians at the end of the 19th century. In the present article we will mainly discuss a statement by Hilbert himself on Moritz Pasch’s influence on his views of geometry, and on personnel politics concerning Hermann Minkowski and Eduard Study but also Engel himself.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1730 (1) ◽  
pp. 012037
Author(s):  
Shuta Noro ◽  
Masahiko Okumura ◽  
Satoshi Hongo ◽  
Shinichiro Nagahiro ◽  
Toshiyuki Ikai ◽  
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1925 ◽  
Vol 12 (177) ◽  
pp. 422 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. J. Elliott

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Prem Kumar Singh ◽  

Recently, a problem is addressed while dealing with fourth dimensional or non-Euclidean data sets. These are the data sets does not follow one of the postulates established by Euclid specially the parallel postulates. In this case, the precise representation of these data sets is major issues for knowledge processing tasks. Hence, the current paper tried to introduce some non-Euclidean geometry or Anti-Geometry methods and its examples for various applications.


The Monist ◽  
1894 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-493
Author(s):  
George Bruce Halsted ◽  

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