Monthly Archives: July 2008

stick a finger in my eye

Posted on Sunday, 2008 July 27 by Anton

After wearing glasses for thirty-odd years, I’m tired of it. I’m thinking of surgery; since I’m on the verge of needing bifocals, my bright idea is to have one eye adjusted for distance and the other for arm’s length (the … Continue reading →

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the greatest thing ever!

Posted on Wednesday, 2008 July 09 by Anton

Forgive my waxing hyperbolic . . . This is a tiling of the hyperbolic plane by triangles whose angles are π/2, π/3, π/7 – the smallest possible tile. I present it in a conformal mapping analogous to the Mercator projection, which I’ve … Continue reading →

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looking for sanity checks in an insane world

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 July 08 by Anton

Some years ago, using basic theorems of hyperbolic trigonometry, I worked out a conformal representation of the hyperbolic plane which preserves one line – analogous to the Mercator projection of the sphere, a conformal map which preserves one great circle. … Continue reading →

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