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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Evelyn Lamb
University of Utah
May 8, 2014
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
1 Euclidean Geometry
2 A Spherical Interlude
3 Hyperbolic geometry
4 Models
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
Euclid’s Elements
c. 300 BCE
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Euclid’s Elements
c. 300 BCE
1st example of axiomatic
approach to mathematics
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Hyperbolic geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Euclid’s Elements
c. 300 BCE
1st example of axiomatic
approach to mathematics
23 definitions, 5 axioms, 5
postulates
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Euclid’s Elements
c. 300 BCE
1st example of axiomatic
approach to mathematics
23 definitions, 5 axioms, 5
postulates
(This is part of the
Pythagorean theorem in
Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition
of the text.)
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Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
One of these postulates is not like the others
A straight line segment can be drawn joining any two points.
A straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a
straight line.
Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having
the segment as a radius and one endpoint as center.
All right angles are congruent.
If two lines are drawn which intersect a third in such a way
that the sum of the inner angles on one side is less than two
right angles, then the two lines inevitably must intersect each
other on that side if extended far enough.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
If two lines are drawn which intersect a third in such a way that
the sum of the inner angles on one side is less than two right
angles, then the two lines inevitably must intersect each other on
that side if extended far enough.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
Playfair’s axiom: Between a line L and a point P not on L,
there is exactly one line through P that does not intersect L.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The Pythagorean Theorem
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180◦ .
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180◦ .
All triangles have the same sum of angles.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180◦ .
All triangles have the same sum of angles.
There is no upper limit to the area of a triangle.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180◦ .
All triangles have the same sum of angles.
There is no upper limit to the area of a triangle.
There exists a pair of triangles that are similar but not
congruent.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
A few statements that are equivalent to the 5th postulate
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
There exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180◦ .
All triangles have the same sum of angles.
There is no upper limit to the area of a triangle.
There exists a pair of triangles that are similar but not
congruent.
There exists a quadrilateral in which all angles are right angles.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
For 2000 years, mathematicians tried to “prove” the fifth postulate
using the other four. In other words, they wanted to show that in
order for the first four postulates to hold, the fifth had to as well.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
For 2000 years, mathematicians tried to “prove” the fifth postulate
using the other four. In other words, they wanted to show that in
order for the first four postulates to hold, the fifth had to as well.
Spoiler alert: they were wrong.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Alternative Versions of the Fifth Postulate
If the fifth postulate didn’t hold, what could happen?
Playfair’s Axiom: Between a line L and a point P not on L, there
is exactly one line through P that does not intersect L.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
How Could We Change the Fifth Postulate?
If the fifth postulate doesn’t hold, what does that mean?
Playfair’s Axiom, elliptic style: Between a line L and a point P not
on L, there are no lines through P that do not intersect L.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
How Could We Change the Fifth Postulate?
If the fifth postulate doesn’t hold, what does that mean?
Playfair’s Axiom, hyperbolic style: Between a line L and a point P
not on L, there are infinitely many lines through P that do not
intersect L.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
A spherical interlude
These alternatives to Playfair’s Axiom might seem bizarre, but if
you’ve ever flown on a plane, you’re familiar with one of them
already.
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
A spherical interlude
Yes, we live on a sphere, so the shortest distance between two
points doesn’t “look like” a straight line on a map.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Remember these statements that are equivalent to the 5th
postulate?
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
All triangles have the same sum of angles.
There is no upper limit to the area of a triangle.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Remember these statements that are equivalent to the 5th
postulate?
The sum of interior angles in a triangle is 180◦ .
All triangles have the same sum of angles.
There is no upper limit to the area of a triangle.
None of them work for the Earth.
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
What about the other version?
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
What about the other version?
Spherical geometry is sitting right under our feet, but it was harder
to discover hyperbolic geometry.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Bolyai and Lobachevsky
“When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different
places in the manner of violets coming to light in early
spring.”-Farkas Bolyai, urging his son János to publish his work on
non-Euclidean geometry
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Bolyai and Lobachevsky
“When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different
places in the manner of violets coming to light in early
spring.”-Farkas Bolyai, urging his son János to publish his work on
non-Euclidean geometry
(“For God’s sake, I beseech you, give it up. Fear it no less than
sensual passions because it too may take all your time and deprive
you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life”-Farkas
Bolyai, a few years earlier, urging his son János to stop studying
non-Euclidean geometry)
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Bolyai and Lobachevsky
“When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different
places in the manner of violets coming to light in early
spring.”-Farkas Bolyai, urging his son János to publish his work on
non-Euclidean geometry
(“For God’s sake, I beseech you, give it up. Fear it no less than
sensual passions because it too may take all your time and deprive
you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life”-Farkas
Bolyai, a few years earlier, urging his son János to stop studying
non-Euclidean geometry)
János Bolyai and Nikolai Lobachevsky independently developed
(discovered?) hyperbolic geometry in the 1820s.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
How hyperbolic geometry is different from Euclidean
geometry
Given a line L and a point P not on L, there are infinitely
many lines through P that do not intersect L.
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
How hyperbolic geometry is different from Euclidean
geometry
Given a line L and a point P not on L, there are infinitely
many lines through P that do not intersect L.
The sum of angles in a triangle is strictly less that 180◦ .
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
How hyperbolic geometry is different from Euclidean
geometry
Given a line L and a point P not on L, there are infinitely
many lines through P that do not intersect L.
The sum of angles in a triangle is strictly less that 180◦ .
The angles of a triangle determine its side lengths. (No such
thing as similar but not congruent.)
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
So what does it look like?!
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
So what does it look like?!
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
So what does it look like?!
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
So what does it look like?!
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
So what does it look like?!
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry
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Outline
Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Poincaré Disk
All the lines shown are “straight”
from the point of view of
hyperbolic geometry because
distance is defined differently
here than it is in the Euclidean
plane.
Like a map of the Earth, the
Poincaré Disk tells truths and
lies. It tells the truth about
angles and lies about area.
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Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit I
M.C. Escher
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit I
Doug Dunham
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit I
Doug Dunham
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit I
Doug Dunham
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Circle Limit I
Escher
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Dunham
Models
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit I
Doug Dunham
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit III
M.C. Escher
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit III
Doug Dunham
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Models
Outline
Euclidean Geometry
Circle Limit III
Doug Dunham
Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Physical Models
In hyperbolic geometry, area increases more quickly than in
Euclidean geometry. A circle of radius 1 has area larger than π.
Many physical models of the hyperbolic plane put “too much area”
around vertices or edges of flat shapes.
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Euclidean Geometry
Soccer Balls
Euclidean “soccer ball”
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Soccer Balls
Spherical soccer ball
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Soccer Balls
Hyperbolic “soccer ball”
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Hyperbolic Fish
Katie Mann
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic crochet
Gabriele Meyer
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Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
Hyperbolic Crochet
Daina Taimina
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A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
Hyperbolic Blanket
Design by Helaman Ferguson, construction by Jeff Weeks
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
3D Printing
Designed by Henry Segerman and printed by Shapeways
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Euclidean Geometry
A Spherical Interlude
Hyperbolic geometry
How to play along at home
More on Escher and math: Doug Dunham, Bill Casselman,
Doris Schattschneider
Hyperbolic geometry maze (either Poincaré disk or
Beltrami-Klein model): David Madore
Instructions to build your own hyperbolic soccer ball: Keith
Henderson, Cabinet Magazine
Template for hyperbolic fish: Katie Mann (Teaching)
How to crochet hyperbolic shapes: Daina Taimina, Institute
for Figuring
Instructions for other models of hyperbolic space: David
Henderson (Experiencing Geometry), Jeff Weeks (Geometry
Games)
3D printed model: Henry Segerman, Shapeways
Or you could grow some kale
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