Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being any of several modern geometries that are not based on the postulates of Euclid.
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- adjective of, or relating to
non-Euclidean geometry
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Examples
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When I was 14 I wrote this fanfic about a sentai team of Greek mathematicians, with Pythagoras as the calm leader and Archimedes as the brash, hot-headed one and Euclid was there too but at the time I was confused by Euclidean versus non-Euclidean Geometry so I didn't really like him and he ended up being the one with no personality.
24th March '09 flidgetjerome 2009
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But they can be in a highly skewed, non-Euclidean geometry, and are topologically equivalent. fifth monarchy man: This ball is red.
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It is not “true” in the non-Euclidean space we live in, and in which our noble guests also presumably live in.
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Still designing the boxes, which, naturally, will be cardboard tesseracts, to hold each non-Euclidean slice.
Howard Hughes vs. Inertia scarletboi 2009
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Russia, writes the novelist Tatyana Tolstaya, “possesses certain peculiarities that verge on the fantastic, and its inner geometry is decidedly non-Euclidean.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Hyperbolic space is a non-Euclidean geometic form described by Mathematicians as a shape with a constant negative curvature.
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Lovecraft for kids may seem like madness at first, but Brown and Podesta show that it can be done, it just takes an imagination warped by non-Euclidean visions.
Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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Russia, writes the novelist Tatyana Tolstaya, “possesses certain peculiarities that verge on the fantastic, and its inner geometry is decidedly non-Euclidean.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Russia, writes the novelist Tatyana Tolstaya, “possesses certain peculiarities that verge on the fantastic, and its inner geometry is decidedly non-Euclidean.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Indeed, between non-Euclidean geometry in the 1820s, abstract algebra in the mid-1800s, and transfinite numbers in the 1880s, it had begun to seem like mathematics was a kind of universal framework for abstraction.
Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009
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