Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky space

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Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky space is a non-Euclidean space with a negative Gaussian curvature — that is, a hyperbolic geometry. The main topic of conversation involving Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky space involves the impossible process (at least in Euclidean geometry) of squaring the circle.

The space is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, János Bolyai, and Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

[edit] See also

• Non-Euclidean geometry

[edit] External links

• http://www.math.sdu.edu.cn/mathency/math/g/g.htm
• http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Gauss-Bolyai-LobachevskySpace.html