scientific article; zbMATH DE number 936682

zbMath0857.51010MaRDI QIDQ4896133

John Stillwell

Publication date: 20 October 1996

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zbMATH Keywords

tessellationquadratic formsdistancemodular groupelliptic functionsuniversal coverinversionpseudosphereKleinhelicoidabsolutehomographyPoincaréBeltramiBolyai-Lobachevsky geometryfuchsian groupsdisc modelnon-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03)

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