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Geometriae Dedicata

, Volume 163, Issue 1, pp 215–274 | Cite as

Universal hyperbolic geometry I: trigonometry

  • N. J. WildbergerEmail author
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Abstract

Hyperbolic geometry is developed in a purely algebraic fashion from first principles, without a prior development of differential geometry. The natural connection with the geometry of Lorentz, Einstein and Minkowski comes from a projective point of view, with trigonometric laws that extend to ‘points at infinity’, here called ‘null points’, and beyond to ‘ideal points’ associated to a hyperboloid of one sheet. The theory works over a general field not of characteristic two, and the main laws can be viewed as deformations of those from planar rational trigonometry. There are many new features; this paper gives 92 foundational theorems.

Keywords

Hyperbolic geometry Projective geometry Rational trigonometry Relativistic geometry Null points 

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)

14N99 53A35 51F99 
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  1. 1.School of Mathematics and StatisticsUNSWSydneyAustralia

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