Saccheri–Legendre theorem implies the characteristic postulate of hyperbolic geometry. Max Dehn gave an example of a non-Legendrian geometry where the angle sum of a triangle is greater than 180 degrees, and a semi-Euclidean geometry where there is a triangle with an angle sum of 180 degrees but Euclid's parallel postulate fails. In Dehn's geometries the Archimedean axiom does not hold. Saccheri–Legendre theorem In absolute geometry, the Saccheri–Legendre theorem states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is at most 180°. Absolute geometry is the geometry obtained from assuming all the axioms that lead to Euclidean geometry with the exception of
Schwarz triangle function since the case of two cusps is obtained by doubling a triangle with one cusp and non-zero angles /"a" and /2. So consider the geodesic triangle in the upper half plane with angles 0, /"a", /"b" with "a", "b" integers greater than one. The interior of such a triangle can be realised as the region "X" in the upper half plane lying outside the unit disk |"z"| ≤ 1 and between two lines parallel to the imaginary axis through points "u" and "v" on the unit circle. Let Γ be the triangle group generated by the three reflections in the