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Riemannian geometry: Quick Facts

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Also Known As elliptic geometry

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Figure 1: Rays having a common perpendicular in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (see text).
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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
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Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov
Soviet-born French mathematician

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