## Tags » Hyperbolic Geometry

#### kleinian, a tool for visualizing Kleinian groups

It’s been a while since I last blogged; the reason, of course, is that I felt that I couldn’t post anything new before completing my series of posts on Kähler groups; but I wasn’t quite ready to write my last post, because I wanted to get to the bottom of a few analytic details in the notorious Gromov-Schoen paper. 357 more words

Groups

#### SnapPy 2.1: Now with extra precision!

Marc Culler and I released SnapPy 2.1 today. The main new feature is the ManifoldHP variant of Manifold which does all floating-point calculations in quad-double precision… 202 more words

3-manifolds

#### Why i was interested in the uniformization theorem?

I was reading “poincare conjecture- in search of the shape of the universe”, a book by Donal O’shea, where i came across the idea that there are only three geometries possible for all orientable compact surfaces. 189 more words

#### Hyperbolic Geometry: Historical Perspective

Hyperbolic geometry was discovered while trying to understand Euclid’s axiomatic basis for what we now call Euclidean geometry. There are ultimately two branches of geometry, … 1,276 more words

Mathematics