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Corresponding Polyhedra in the Three Spaces of Constant Curvature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ernst Roeser
Ernst Roeser*
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Mainz, Germany
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The five Platonic solids can be drawn in elliptic or hyperbolic space just as well as in Euclidean space. Their numerical properties are, of course, the same in all three. So are the various angles subtended at the centre. But the face-angles and dihedral angles are greater in elliptic space, smaller in hyperbolic. It is a special feature of the non-Euclidean spaces that we cannot change the size of a solid without changing its shape.

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 5 , 1953 , pp. 40 - 45
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1953

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