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    Saccheri studied special quadrilaterals (right base angles whose adjacent sides are congruent) it's easy to prove that the summit angles are, but he had three options. Case 1: they are right; case 2: they are acute; case 3: they are obtuse.

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    Saccheri studied special quadrilaterals (right base angles whose adjacent sides are congruent) it's easy to prove that the summit angles are, but he had three options. Case 1: they are right; case 2: they are acute; case 3: they are obtuse.

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    Homework7ParallelPostulate

    Math329

    2
    .Saccheristudiedspecialquadrilaterals(rightbaseangleswhoseadjacentsidesarecongruentto
    eachother).Itseasytoprovethatthesummitanglesarecongruent,leavinghimwiththree
    differentoptions:
    Case1theyareright
    Case2theyareacute
    Case3theyareobtuseCONTRADICTION
    ProveinNeutralGeometrythatthesummitanglesarecongruent.

    GivenbaseABbyEuclidspostulate1wecanconstructlineADandlineBC.Therefore,line
    ADBC,andlineABBA.
    AlsoassumingthatthequadrilateralisaSaccheriquadrilateralwecansaythattherightbase
    anglesarecongruent<DAB<CBAbyEuclidsfourthpostulate.
    SinceDABCBAbySAS,wecanconcludethatlineACBD.
    Therefore,ADCBCD,thusthesummitangles<D<C.

    3.
    ExplainwhytheCase3cannothappeninNeutralgeometry.Toanswerthisparticularquestion
    youmayuseoutsideresources,ifproperlycited.
    Thefollowinglinkwilldemonstratehowcasethreeisnotpossibleinneutralgeometryandhow
    itisacontradictionofCorollary2totheSaccheriLegendreTheorem.Lookat
    THEOREM4.
    http://www.millersville.edu/~rumble/math.353/angle_sum.pdf


    4.IllustrateCases1and2includefigures,andexplainwhatconsequenceseachhas.
    Case1:Theyareright.

    Incase1allanglesare90degrees.Allangleswouldaddupto360degrees,andformeithera
    squareorarectangle.ByusingEuclidsfifthpostulate,SASwecanuseatransversal,andsay
    that<ACB+<ACD=90degrees.

    Case2:theyareacute.

    From
    HistoryoftheParallelPostulate
    ,Saccheriattemptedtomakeacontradictionassuming
    thatthesummitanglesin(Saccheriquadrilateral)wereacuteindoingsohediscovered
    nonEuclideangeometry.Hecalledthistheinimicalacutehypothesis.

    5.IllustratethedifferencebetweenSaccheriandLambertSquares,andexplainhowyour
    thinkingchangefromthefirstencounterofthosetwo.(HWconstructions).

    Definitionsfromhomework1.2.2constructions
    Saccherisquare:aquadrilateralthathas3equalsidesand2rightangles.
    Lambertsquare:aquadrilateralthathas2equalsidesand3rightangles.

    ThefirstpictureisaSaccheriacutequadrilateral.ThesecondpictureisanacuteLambert
    quadrilateral,andthethirdpictureisbotharightSaccheriandarightLambertsquadrilateral.

    Whenwefirstdidhomework1.2.2constructions,Ithoughtthatalltypesofsquareswerethe
    same,butafterspendingtimeonthedifferentgeometriesthatexistIrealizedthateach
    square/quadrilateralhasuniquecharacteristics,andexistindifferentgeometries.Mythinking
    aboutthesequadrilateralchanged.Inolongerthinkthattheyareallthesame.

    Resources
    MillersvilleUniversityofPennsylvania.TheAngleSumofaTriangleinNeutralGeometry.
    RetrivedOctober8,2015,from
    http://www.millersville.edu/~rumble/math.353/angle_sum.pdf

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