2015-04-10
[public] 387K views, 8.27K likes, 157 dislikes audio only
Featuring Dr Caleb Ashley. Abandoning "The Fifth Axiom" - Euclid's so-called Parallel Postulate - gave birth to a whole new world... the world of Hyperbolic Geometry.
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Extra footage from this interview: /youtube/video/0FG-vUSjoAM
Filmed at MSRI. More hyperbolic geometry videos soon.
http://bit.ly/HyperbolicGeometry
Euclid's Postulates: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EuclidsPostulates.html
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