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Penrose makes the point that there are many instances in mathematics where the name attached to a concept is not that of the original discoverer. Some examples given: | Penrose makes the point that there are many instances in mathematics where the name attached to a concept is not that of the original discoverer. Some examples given: | ||
* It is typical to attribute the discovery and first full acceptance of this geometry differing from Euclidâs via the absence of the fifth postulate to Carl Friedrich Gauss, but because Gauss did not publish his work, Janos Bolyai and Nicolai Ivanoivich Lobachevsky are also named as having independently rediscovered this geometry a few decades later. Hyperbolic geometry is frequently referred to as | * It is typical to attribute the discovery and first full acceptance of this geometry differing from Euclidâs via the absence of the fifth postulate to Carl Friedrich Gauss, but because Gauss did not publish his work, Janos Bolyai and Nicolai Ivanoivich Lobachevsky are also named as having independently rediscovered this geometry a few decades later. Hyperbolic geometry is frequently referred to as Lobachevskian geometry.  | ||
* Eugenio Beltrami was mentioned in section 2.5 for the discovery of the relations between the projective and conformal, via the hemispherical realizations. The conformal representation is commonly referred to as the Poincare model and the projective representation as the âKleinâ representation after their rediscoveries later in the 19th century. Beltrami is however best known for his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudosphere#:~:text=In%20geometry%2C%20a%20pseudosphere%20is,immersed%20into%20three%2Ddimensional%20space. pseudo-sphere] representation involving Newtonâs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractrix tractrix] curve. | * Eugenio Beltrami was mentioned in section 2.5 for the discovery of the relations between the projective and conformal, via the hemispherical realizations. The conformal representation is commonly referred to as the Poincare model and the projective representation as the âKleinâ representation after their rediscoveries later in the 19th century. Beltrami is however best known for his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudosphere#:~:text=In%20geometry%2C%20a%20pseudosphere%20is,immersed%20into%20three%2Ddimensional%20space. pseudo-sphere] representation involving Newtonâs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractrix tractrix] curve. | ||