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Pseudosphere
Eugenio Beltrami, 1868
Spin a tractrix about its asymptote. The trumpet has constant negative curvature everywhere, the opposite of a sphere, and Beltrami used it to give the first concrete model of a piece of non-Euclidean geometry.
(sech u cos v, sech u sin v, u − tanh u), K = −1
On mathcurve.com as Pseudo-sphère
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