X-Google-Thread: f996b,82e0de217f3c83ee X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!authen.yellow.readfreenews.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: grue@mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: request please for an ascii drawing of a saddle and a huge ball that would fit into the saddle; for math Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:04:56 GMT Message-ID: <45ae55f4.35175199@news.readfreenews.net> References: <1169028002.509545.171460@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> <45ae4b29$0$23666$426a74cc@news.free.fr> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 44 Organization: Read Free News NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jan 2007 11:05:00 CST X-Trace: DXC= tried to confuse everyone with this message: >Faux_Pseudo wrote in message : >>> This is a ascii art for math and sci.math. Can someone please draw a >>> saddle and then draw a huge ball that >>> would sit on top of the saddle as to ride the saddle. The idea is that >>> the ball is Riem geom and the saddleshape >>> is Lobachevskian geom. >> >> What is a lobachevskian geom? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry >> Or a Reim geom? >> http://images.google.com/images?q=Riemannian%20geometry > >He probably means respectively hyperbolic and parabolic. Elliptic, not parabolic. >I hate it when people use the name of someone instead of a meaningful name >to designate a mathematical object. These names are traditional in some countries, like former USSR where Lobachevsky is considered one of the greatest mathematicians ever. >> How big did you want this thing? This big? >> __ >> ( ) >> \/ _ >> / \`---' \ >> /_.-\_.--._\ >> > No ASCII art from me, because I have an exam soon and unfortunately it's quantum physics, not math... |><|><>|<|>|<|><><|> -- |Don't believe this - you're not worthless ,gr---------.ru |It's us against millions and we can't take them all... | ue il | |But we can take them on! | @ma | | (A Wilhelm Scream - The Rip) |______________|