The attractor mechanism implies that the supersymmetric black hole near horizon solution is defined in terms of the conserved charges only and therefore is independent of asymptotic moduli. Starting only with the near horizon geometry, Sen’s entropy functional formalism computes the entropy of an extreme black hole by means of a Legendre transformation where the electric fields are defined as c...

This attractive little volume consists of two major components, together with a number of shorter sections. The major components are labeled " Introduction " and " Appendix " respectively , both designations grossly understating their content. The " Appendix " consists of Bolyai's revolutionary tract, with the subtitle " THE SCIENCE ABSOLUTE OF SPACE Independent of the Truth or Falsity of Eucli...

Last lecture, we spent a considerable amount of effort defining manifolds. We like manifolds because they are locally Euclidean. So, even though it is hard for us to reason about them globally, we know what to do in small neighborhoods. It turns out that this ability is all we really need. This is rather fortunate, because we suddenly have spaces with more interesting structure than the Euclide...

Our goal is to study image processing techniques for 360-degree images, which are obtained from omni-directional sensors [11, 17]. Having a curved mirror, i.e. hyperbolic, spherical or parabolic, as a lens for the corresponding catadioptric system, we obtain non-Euclidean images. One way of processing such an image is to perform a panoramic projection of this image onto a cylinder. In this way ...

For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane, with most hypothesizing that a system of Euclidean concepts either is innate or is assembled by general learning processes. Recent research from cognitive and developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology, animal c...

We review recent developments in special geometry and explain its role in the theory of supersymmetric black holes. To make this article self-contained, a short introduction to black holes is given, with emphasis on the laws of black hole mechanics and black hole entropy. We also summarize the existing results on the para-complex version of special geometry, which occurs in Euclidean supersymme...

Search methods provide short and human readable proofs, i.e. with few algebra, of most of the theorems of the Euclidean plane. They are less succesful and convincing for incidence theorems of projective geometry, which has received less attention up to now. This is due to the fact that basic notions, like angles and distances, which are relevant for Euclidean geometry, are no more relevant for ...

We discuss the Euclidean limit of hyperbolic SU(2)-monopoles, framed at infinity, from the point of view of pluricomplex geometry. More generally, we discuss the geometry of hypercomplex manifolds arising as limits of pluricomplex manifolds.