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Pythagorean theorem

In a Riemann sphere you can express the distance ds with the Pythagorean theorem as

 

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Explanation

You can assign a measure of curvature k to a 3-dimensional space. For a plane in this space the distance is

 

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History The sphere is named after the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826 - 1866).

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