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Dirichlet's work on gravity in non-Euclidean space?
In the book The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology by the late John North I have found the following statement (page 514):
"The German mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet studied the law of ...
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Tiling hexagons on a sphere surface
In attemopt to understand basic principles of non-Euclidean geometry and its relation to physical space, I am reading General Relativity by Ben Crowell. On page 149 there is a discussion of hexagons ...
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Is a semi-Euclidean space possible?
Does exists a geometry (3d for example) which is Euclidean in 2 dimensions (x and y coordinates) and non-Euclidean when the third dimension (z) is taken into account? In other words a space where it ...
