To Be Presented in the 11th Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics December 12-16, 2006, Hong Kong SAR, China |
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Studying Non-Euclidean Tilings and Their Groups with the Aid of Technologymlp@mathsci.math.admu.edu.ph Glenn Laigo
Abstract In recent years, the opportunities to explore the non-Euclidean
planes and visualize the various mathematical properties that are satisfied
in these planes have been made available to teachers, students and researchers
with the presence of technology. In this work, the technological approaches
that have facilitated our research on non-Euclidean tilings and their
groups will be discussed. The first part of the paper will focus on the
method in determining the symmetry groups of semi-regular tilings on the
hyperbolic and spherical planes where investigations were carried out
using the L2Primitive/Tess packages of Mathematica. In the second part
of the paper, an approach in coloring hyperbolic semi-regular tilings
will be presented using, as tools, the GAP and the Coloring the Hyperbolic
Plane (CHP) programs. Moreover, discussion will also be given on the use
of the CHP program in providing some characterizations of the subgroups
of Hyperbolic Triangle groups - conjugates, normalizers, etc. |
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