Activity: How to make your own hyperbolic surface

Abstract: Hyperbolic geometry is an interesting and important part of modern math. Part of the difficulty in working with it is that we often have little personal experience with it. To get this intuition, we can construct hyperbolic spaces out of paper, with a method popularized by Thurston. Much paper (preferably newspaper), tape, scissors, and a protractor are required.

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