A Formula
In the hyperbolic plane of constant curvature, the summit of a Saccheri quadrilateral can be calculated from the leg and the base using the formula
Read more about this topic: Saccheri Quadrilateral
Famous quotes containing the word formula:
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)