The One with the Hyper-Si-Mi-Lan Bolic Geometry

[niterage05]

The 4th Module of my Masters started yesterday. 
Seriously when I came out from the tutorial, I tot I see stars circling round my head. 
Lesson 1: Hyperbolic Geometry.

And my lecturer sums up the topic in an email he just send out to us:

Some comments on lesson 1. Locally we live in the Euclidean plane. Globally we do not. Actually we live on the

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[deathstix]

eh who teaching u ar...
Dr Paul Shutler? hehehehe...
he taught me History of Mathematics!
We had to do maths problems in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics!
piangggzzzzzz......

(is my favourite Dr Tang Wee Kee still there?)

[niterage05]

Shutler is the coordinator for this module!!
I am taught by Dr Lee..
History of Maths was my 2nd Module.. and tats disgusting I tell you.. Reform Maths lah.. New Maths lah..
ARGGHHHH.. and I just passed for that module..
:(

[deathstix]

eh...Dr Lee Peng Yee issit?
did I get his name right...

I used his Maths textbook (the black one...Syllabus D)...while I was still in sec school! Such a pleasure to have been taught by him...

[deathstix]

and...oh...don't you love it when the sum of angles in a triangle can be 270degrees... heeeeee
(I just love confusing students with this one ;p)

[niterage05]

Yup yup..
Tat Dr Lee...
He's good.. in confusing us as well..
Haha..

Ya lor.. Sum of angles on a st8 line also not equal to 180degress leh..
So cheeemmmm