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    In mathematics, especially in geometry and topology, an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object along with the object itself. For...
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    modern mathematics uses many types of spaces, such as Euclidean spaces, linear spaces, topological spaces, Hilbert spaces, or probability spaces, it does...
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  • In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero...
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  • of the ambient space), the condition means that the tangent space to the ambient manifold is the direct sum of the two smaller tangent spaces. If an intersection...
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  • “size” (where the meaning of “size” depends on the structure of the ambient space). The term precompact (or pre-compact) is sometimes used with the same...
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  • A one-dimensional space (1D space) is a mathematical space in which location can be specified with a single coordinate. An example is the number line,...
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    hypersurface, a subspace whose dimension is one less than that of the ambient space. Two lower-dimensional examples of hyperplanes are one-dimensional lines...
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    In the mathematical subject of topology, an ambient isotopy, also called an h-isotopy, is a kind of continuous distortion of an ambient space, for example...
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  • A two-dimensional space is a mathematical space with two dimensions, meaning points have two degrees of freedom: their locations can be locally described...
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    In mathematics, a knot is an embedding of the circle (S1) into three-dimensional Euclidean space, R3 (also known as E3). Often two knots are considered...
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    In mathematics and physics, a vector space (also called a linear space) is a set whose elements, often called vectors, may be added together and multiplied...
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  • hodological space while the former by ambient space. An ambient space or ambient configuration space is the space surrounding an object. According to this...
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  • or surface is contained in a larger space, curvature can be defined extrinsically relative to the ambient space. Curvature of Riemannian manifolds of...
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  • Geometry (redirect from Geometrical space)
    land', and μέτρον (métron) 'a measure') is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position...
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    In topology, a branch of mathematics, two continuous functions from one topological space to another are called homotopic (from Ancient Greek: ὁμός homós...
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    In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric...
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    In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point. More precisely, an n {\displaystyle n} -dimensional...
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    their representations in vector spaces and through matrices. Linear algebra is central to almost all areas of mathematics. For instance, linear algebra...
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  • in mathematical morphology Scaling (geometry), including: Homogeneous dilation (homothety), the scalar multiplication operator on a vector space or affine...
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  • In mathematics, the tangent space of a manifold is a generalization of tangent lines to curves in two-dimensional space and tangent planes to surfaces...
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  • Geodesic curvature (category Geodesic (mathematics))
    tangent space to M {\displaystyle M} . On the other hand the normal curvature depends strongly on how the submanifold lies in the ambient space, but marginally...
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    reference to any ambient space. For example, the Klein bottle is a surface that cannot be embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Topological surfaces...
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    In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdSn) is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant negative scalar curvature...
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    In mathematics, the knot complement of a tame knot K is the space where the knot is not. If a knot is embedded in the 3-sphere, then the complement is...
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    mathematical language, a knot is an embedding of a circle in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, E 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {E} ^{3}} . Two mathematical knots...
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  • Subsurface mapping by ambient noise tomography can be applied in different fields, such as detecting the underground void space, monitoring landslides...
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    In mathematics, a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted E 2 {\displaystyle {\textbf {E}}^{2}} or E 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {E}...
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    Tensor (redirect from Tensor (mathematics))
    In mathematics, a tensor is an algebraic object that describes a multilinear relationship between sets of algebraic objects related to a vector space. Tensors...
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  • topological spaces, such as Grothendieck topology, have provided applications to mathematical logic and to number theory. In many mathematical branches,...
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    It also serves as a counterexample to the claim that all Cantor spaces are ambiently homeomorphic to each other. It was discovered by Louis Antoine (1921)...
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