Lecture Description
Armed with explicit formulas for null points and null lines, along with their meets and joins, we return to the polarity of Apollonius with which we began this series. Our aim is to establish a fundamental fact that was previously stated without proof: that the dual or polar of a point can be found by two auxiliary (interior) lines and an associated quadrangle of null points. The key point is that the diagonal line formed by the (other) diagonal points of this quadrangle depend only on the original point. Our main tool is an explicit---but lengthy!---- formula for the meet of two interior lines formed by two pairs of null points. As usual we illustrate with a concrete explicit example. CONTENT SUMMARY: pg 1: @00:10 null point, null line, join of null points, meet of null lines F(t1:u1|t2:u2), f(t1:u1|t2:u2); interior line, exterior point pg 2: @04:45 drawing an interior line and exterior point pg 3: @07:09 quadrangle, quadrilateral, Apollonius, polarity pg 4: @08:36 a quadrangle of 4 null points; g function for joins and a meet; formula for the meet of 2 interior lines pg 5: @12:49 quadrangle computation example; important observation about 3 diagonal points; statement of polarity of Appolonius pg 6: @18:40 Nil quadrangle diagonals theorem, proof pg 7: @21:33 calculation showing 3 diagonal points are mutually perpendicular; pg 8: @23:51 homogeneous coordinates to affine coordinates, pole/polar corollary (THANKS to EmptySpaceEnterprise)
Course Index
- Introduction to Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
- Apollonius and Polarity
- Apollonius and Harmonic Conjugates
- Pappus' Theorem and the Cross Ratio
- First Steps in Hyperbolic Geometry
- The Circle and Cartesian Coordinates
- Duality, Quadrance and Spread in Cartesian Coordinates
- The Circle and Projective Homogeneous Coordinates
- The Circle and Projective Homogeneous Coordinates II
- Computations with Homogeneous Coordinates
- Duality and Perpendicularity
- Existence of Orthocenters
- Theorems using Perpendicularity
- Null Points and Null Lines
- Apollonius and Polarity Revisited
- Reflections in Hyperbolic Geometry
- Reflections and Projective Linear Algebra
- Midpoints and Bisectors
- Medians, Midlines, Centroids and Circumcenters
- Parallels and the Double Triangle
- The J function, sl(2) and the Jacobi identity
- Pure and Applied Geometry: understanding the continuum
- Quadrance and Spread
- Pythagoras' Theorem in Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
- The Triple Quad Formula in Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
- Visualizing Quadrance with Circles
- Geometer's Sketchpad and Circles in Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
- Trigonometric Laws in Hyperbolic Geometry using Geometer's Sketchpad
- The Spread Law in Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
- The Cross Law in Universal Hyperbolic Geometry
- Thales' Theorem, Right Triangles and Napier's Rules
- Isosceles Triangles in Hyperbolic Geometry
- Menelaus, Ceva and the Laws of Proportion
- Trigonometric Dual Laws and the Parallax Formula
- Introduction to Spherical and Elliptic Geometries
- Introduction to Spherical and Elliptic Geometries II
- Areas and Volumes for a Sphere
- Classical Spherical Trigonometry
- Perpendicularity, Polarity and Duality on a Sphere
- Parametrizing and Projecting a Sphere
- Rational Trigonometry: An Overview
- Rational Trigonometry in Three Dimensions
Course Description
This is a complete and relatively elementary course explaining a new, simpler and more elegant theory of non-Euclidean geometry; in particular hyperbolic geometry. It is a purely algebraic approach which avoids transcendental functions like log, sin, tanh etc, relying instead on high school algebra and quadratic equations. The theory is more general, extending beyond the null circle, and connects naturally to Einstein's special theory of relativity. This course is meant for mathematics majors, bright high school students, high school teachers, engineers, scientists, and others with an interest in mathematics and some basic algebraic skills. NJ Wildberger is also the developer of Rational Trigonometry: a new and better way of learning and using trigonometry. Look up for his course in order to familiarize with this new development. He also has recorded very organized and detailed lecture series on Algebraic Topology, History of Mathematic, Linear Algebra, and more.