imaginary geometry
nounEtymology
Calque of Russian мни́мая геометрия (mnímaja geometrija), coined by mathematician Nicolai Lobachevsky, probably influenced by мни́мое чи́сло (mnímoje číslo, “imaginary number”), although his precise reasoning is unknown.
- derived from мни́мая геометрия
Definitions
Absolute geometry, an axiomatised geometry in which the parallel postulate is absent and…
Absolute geometry, an axiomatised geometry in which the parallel postulate is absent and not replaced by an alternative, and of which Euclidean geometry and some non-Euclidean geometries are subtypes.
- Claim 7. The Euclidean law of cosines holds for any infinitesimal triangle #92;triangleABC in imaginary geometry.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for imaginary geometry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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