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27 <strong>Hyperbolic</strong> Geometry<br />

Remark 2.5.1. The famous Lobachevsky’s formula<br />

cot α<br />

2<br />

follows easily from Theorem 2.5.2, <strong>in</strong> fact, <strong>in</strong> view of (2.37), we have tanh b = cos α, then<br />

= eb<br />

cot α<br />

2 =<br />

<br />

1 + cos α<br />

1 − cos α =<br />

<br />

eb e−b = eb .<br />

Theorem 2.5.3 (<strong>Hyperbolic</strong> Pythagorean Theorem). For any triangle with angles α, β and γ =<br />

π/2, we have<br />

cosh c = cosh a cosh b.<br />

Proof<br />

For any right triangle with angles α, β and π/2, we may assume, by apply<strong>in</strong>g a suitable isometry,<br />

that za = x + iy with x 2 + y 2 = 1, zb = it for t > 0 and zc = i. Us<strong>in</strong>g Theorem 2.3.2 we have<br />

<br />

cosh c = cosh η(it, x + iy) = 1 +<br />

cosh b = cosh η(i, x + iy) = 1 +<br />

cosh a = cosh η(i, it) =<br />

1 + t2<br />

.<br />

2t<br />

|it − x − iy|2<br />

2yt<br />

|i − x − iy|2<br />

2y<br />

= 1 + t2<br />

= 1<br />

y ,<br />

2yt ,

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