Hyperbolic space for tourists
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2013-07
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Blåsjö, Viktor
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We discuss how a creature accustomed to Euclidean space would fare in a world of hyperbolic or spherical geometry, and conversely. Various optical illusions and counterintuitive experiences arise, which can be explicated mathematically using plane models of these geometries.
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Blasjo, V 2013, 'Hyperbolic space for tourists', Journal of humanistic mathematics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 88-95. https://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.201302.06