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The document discusses spherical geometry on the unit sphere and hyperbolic geometry on the unit hyperboloid. It describes how geodesics are defined for each surface, resulting in elliptic geometry on the sphere and hyperbolic geometry on the hyperboloid. It also discusses how the real projective plane can model both the sphere and half of the hyperboloid, and how changing models translates between elliptic and hyperbolic geometries.
- Author
- Thomas Watts
- Language
- EN