non-Euclidean geometry

Noun

Meaning

(mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's

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Synonyms

algebra calculus analytic geometry affine geometry euclidian geometry computational geometry descriptive geometry algebraic geometry algebraic topology convex geometry absolute geometry Klein geometry conformal geometry Euclid's fifth axiom geometry subject

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Antonyms

Euclidean geometry

Hypernyms

geometry

Hyponyms

Riemannian geometry hyperbolic geometry elliptic geometry

Examples

non-Euclidean geometries discard or replace one or more of the Euclidean axioms Source: Internet

19th and early 20th century It took the simultaneous 19th century developments of non-Euclidean geometry and Abelian integrals in order to bring the old algebraic ideas back into the geometrical fold. Source: Internet

After his habilitation, Hausdorff wrote another work on optics, on non-Euclidean geometry, and on hypercomplex number systems, as well as two papers on probability theory. Source: Internet

Circa 1813, Carl Friedrich Gauss and independently around 1818, the German professor of law Ferdinand Karl Schweikart In a letter of December 1818, Ferdinand Karl Schweikart (1780-1859) sketched a few insights into non-Euclidean geometry. Source: Internet

Ball, p. 485 Since non-Euclidean geometry is provably relatively consistent with Euclidean geometry, the parallel postulate cannot be proved from the other postulates. Source: Internet

Carnap, R, An introduction to the philosophy of science, p. 148 Since Euclidean geometry is simpler than non-Euclidean geometry, he assumed the former would always be used to describe the 'true' geometry of the world. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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