AA postulate congruent angles. AA postulate In Euclidean geometry, the AA postulate states that two triangles are similar if they have two corresponding angles congruent. The AA postulate follows from the fact that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is always equal to 180°. By knowing two angles, such as 32° and 64° degrees, we know that the next angle is 84°, because 180-(32+64)=84. (This is sometimes referred to as the AAA Postulate—which is true in all respects, but two angles are entirely sufficient.) The postulate can be better understood by working in reverse order. The two triangles on
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