INVESTIGADORES
SALVAI Marcos Luis
artículos
Título:
Another motivation for the hyperbolic plane: Segments moving on the line
Autor/es:
SALVAI, MARCOS
Revista:
MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCER
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Año: 2007 vol. 29 p. 6 - 7
ISSN:
0343-6993
Resumen:
We give another motivation for the two dimensional hyperbolic geometry, presented through a concrete example of a surface which is not included in a canonical manner in the Euclidean space: The set of all nontrivial bounded and closed intervals in the real line, endowed with a metric which does not discriminate size.
