Analytic Hyperbolic Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
12%
OFF
Available
 
About the Book
This is the first book on analytic hyperbolic geometry, fully analogous to analytic Euclidean geometry. Analytic hyperbolic geometry regulates relativistic mechanics just as analytic Euclidean geometry regulates classical mechanics. The book presents a novel gyrovector space approach to analytic hyperbolic geometry, fully analogous to the well-known vector space approach to Euclidean geometry. A gyrovector is a hyperbolic vector. Gyrovectors are equivalence classes of directed gyrosegments that add according to the gyroparallelogram law just as vectors are equivalence classes of directed segments that add according to the parallelogram law. In the resulting ?gyrolanguage? of the book one attaches the prefix ?gyro? to a classical term to mean the analogous term in hyperbolic geometry. The prefix stems from Thomas gyration, which is the mathematical abstraction of the relativistic effect known as Thomas precession. Gyrolanguage turns out to be the language one needs to articulate novel a
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9789812564573
EAN: 9789812564573
Publisher Date: 07 Sep 2005
Dewey: 516.9
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
PrintOnDemand: N
Spine Width: 30.5 mm
ISBN-10: 9812564578
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Binding: Hardcover
Height: 208 mm
LCCN: 2005042422
No of Pages: 484
Series Title: English
Width: 152 mm