Day 24
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Math 445, Wednesday, 3/2
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| Sponsor |
Today's class is brought to you by the Nikolai
Ivanovich Lobachevsky. |
| Topics |
History of non-Euclidean
geometry and why it was so influential. Where this geometry sits in the
geometry of today. |
| Class Schedule |
- Class Activity: Additive
Property of Excess and Defect. P-triangles are "defective".
- Two thousand years of efforts to prove the Euclidean Parallel Postulate.
- Achievements of Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky
- Models of Poincare and Klein.
- Curved spaces.
- Link to pdf of Non-Euclidean
Presentation
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| Assignments |
| New |
Reading Assignment
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| Due Today |
None
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| Ongoing |
Portfolios and Project Team homeworks
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