Academic Catalog

MATH471 HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY

Course Code: 2360471
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 7.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. MUSTAFA KORKMAZ
Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Parallel postulate and the need for non-Euclidean geometry, models of the hyperbolic plane, Möbius group, classification of Möbius transformations, classical geometric notions such as length, distance, isometry, parallelism, convexity, area, trigonometry in the hyperbolic plane, groups acting on the hyperbolic plane, fundamental domains.