Ramble, Part 44: A Little Hyperbolic

Even though Carl Friedrich Gauss appears to have been the first to seriously grapple with the idea of non-Euclidean geometry, credit for the discovery goes to Nikolai Lobachevsky and Janos Bolyai. Under the cut, a couple of quasi-biographical notes and some comments on the distinctive features of the geometry they discovered.

( Some Parallels )

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