Abstract
Sooner or later, people who study hyperbolic geometry develop a “hyperbolic” intuition. Pictures stop looking wrong. Theorems can be anticipated. The world can be seen, at will, in either Euclidean or hyperbolic terms.
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Lobachevsky. Quoted in the American Mathematical Monthly (February 1984), p. 151.
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(2008). Geometry and the Story Theory of Truth. In: The Non-Euclidean Revolution. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4783-4_8
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