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We elaborate on some important ideas contained in Lobachevsky's Pangeometry and in some of his other memoirs. The ideas include the following: (1) The trigonometric formulae, which express the dependence between angles and edges of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Athanase Papadopoulos

The proper Euclidean geometry is considered to be metric space and described in terms of only metric and finite metric subspaces (sigma-immanent description). Constructing the geometry, one does not use topology and topological properties.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

In Euclidean geometry, the Pythagorean theorem is presented as an equation involving three squares. This paper explores how analogous expressions may be identified in spherical and hyperbolic geometries.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Akira Ushijima

In this note we will present how Euler's investigations on various different subjects lead to certain properties of the Legendre polynomials. More precisely, we will show that the generating function and the difference equation for the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Alexander Aycock

This is an overview of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Treatise of the quadrilateral, an invaluable 13th century document on spherical geometry which was translated into French in 1891. The title we are using here is the one given by the translator…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Athanase Papadopoulos

The enduring legacy of Euclidean geometry underpins classical machine learning, which, for decades, has been primarily developed for data lying in Euclidean space. Yet, modern machine learning increasingly encounters richly structured data…

We solve a problem concerning Euler's paper "Variae considerationes circa series hypergeometricas" (\cite{E661}) suggested by G. Faber in the preface to Volume 16,2 of the first series of Euler's Opera Omnia by methods proven by Euler on…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Alexander Aycock

Pythagoras' theorem, the area of a triangle as one half the base times the height, and Heron's formula are amongst the most important and useful results of ancient Greek geometry. Here we look at all three in a new and improved light, using…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-24 N. J. Wildberger

We establish the equivalence of the Tuynman midpoint area formula for a spherical triangle to the classical area formulas of Euler and of Cagnoli. The derivation also yields a variant of the Cagnoli formula in terms of the medial triangle.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-29 David W. Fillmore , Jay P. Fillmore

These lecture notes provide a self-contained introduction to Euler integrals, which are frequently encountered in applications. In particle physics, they arise as Feynman integrals or string amplitudes. Our four selected topics demonstrate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Saiei-Jaeyeong Matsubara-Heo , Sebastian Mizera , Simon Telen

We discover suprising connections between three seemingly different problems: finding right triangles with rational sides in a non-Euclidean geometry, finding three integers such that the difference of the squares of any two is a square,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Hartshorne , Ronald van Luijk

Leonhard Euler, the most prolific mathematician in history, contributed to advance a wide spectrum of topics in celestial mechanics. At the Saint Petersburg Observatory, Euler observed sunspots and tracked the movements of the Moon.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Dora Musielak

There are multiple generalisations of the Pythagorean theorem to spherical and hyperbolic geometry. A natural one, involving areas of disks with radii equal to the sides of a proper triangle, was discovered in the hyperbolic case by Maria…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Michaël Maex

In this article, I develop an elementary system of axioms for Euclidean geometry. On one hand, the system is based on the symmetry principles which express our a priori ignorant approach to space: all places are the same to us (the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Boris Čulina

Spherical localisation is a technique whose history goes back to M.Gromov and V.Milman. It's counterpart, the Euclidean localisation is extensively studied and has been put to great use in various branches of mathematics. The purpose of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Yashar Memarian

The aim of this paper is to introduce a generalization of Steiner symmetrization in Euclidean space for spherical space, which is the dual of the Steiner symmetrization in hyperbolic space introduced by J. Schneider (Manuscripta Math. 60:…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Bushra Basit , Steven Hoehner , Zsolt Lángi , Jeff Ledford

In this paper, we define extended trigonometric functions via series and employ the method of contour integration to investigate the parity of certain cyclotomic Euler sums and multiple polylogarithm function. We can provide the statement…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Hongyuan Rui , Ce Xu

This is the English translation of Leonhard Euler's Latin paper "De solidis quorum superficiem in planum explicare licet". Euler explains several methods to obtain equations for developable surfaces. Therefore, this paper might be…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Leonhard Euler , Alexander Aycock

This paper is an introductory and informal exposition on the topology of polygonal meshes. We begin with a broad overview of topological notions and discuss how homeomorphisms, homotopy, and homology can be used to characterise topology. We…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Andreas Bærentzen

The three key documents for study geometry are: 1) "The Elements" of Euclid, 2) the lecture by B. Riemann at G\"ottingen in 1854 entitled "\"Uber die Hypothesen welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen" (On the hypotheses which underlie…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-11-08 Jose Ricardo Arteaga Bejarano