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Pages in category theorems in plane geometry the following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This is a set of notes from a 5day doityourself or perhaps discoverityourself introduction to hyperbolic geometry. It is generally distinguished from noneuclidean geometries by the parallel postulate, which in euclids formulation states that, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced. Combinatorics with emphasis on the theory of graphs,jack e.
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