• In mathematics, synthetic differential geometry is a formalization of the theory of differential geometry in the language of topos theory. There are several...
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  • Synthetic geometry (sometimes referred to as axiomatic geometry or even pure geometry) is geometry without the use of coordinates. It relies on the axiomatic...
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    Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It...
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  • mathematics such as calculus, differential geometry, algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. The term differential is used nonrigorously in calculus...
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    in the rational foundations of continuum physics and in the synthetic differential geometry that had evolved from the spatial part of Lawvere's categorical...
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  • Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-62401-5. Uses synthetic differential geometry and nilpotent infinitesimals. Boelkins, M. (2012). Active Calculus:...
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  • This is a list of differential geometry topics. See also glossary of differential and metric geometry and list of Lie group topics. List of curves topics...
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  • References Absolute differential calculus An older name of Ricci calculus Absolute geometry Also called neutral geometry, a synthetic geometry similar to Euclidean...
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  • popular in algebraic geometry. Differentials in smooth models of set theory. This approach is known as synthetic differential geometry or smooth infinitesimal...
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    Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such...
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  • geometry, also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system. This contrasts with synthetic geometry...
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  • synthetic geometry. Another topic that developed from axiomatic studies of projective geometry is finite geometry. The topic of projective geometry is...
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    analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability...
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  • Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, defined as smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric (an...
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  • methods—differential geometry, algebraic geometry, computational geometry, algebraic topology, discrete geometry (also known as combinatorial geometry), etc...
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    elastic deformations of solid objects. Euler formulated the partial differential equations for the motion of inviscid fluid, and laid the mathematical...
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  • used in the initial development of calculus, and are used in synthetic differential geometry. Hyperreal numbers: The numbers used in non-standard analysis...
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    using the Exterior algebra of an n-dimensional vector space. Synthetic differential geometry or smooth infinitesimal analysis have roots in category theory...
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    Hence, it is a more primitive definition of the structure (see synthetic differential geometry). A final advantage of this approach is that it allows for...
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    In mathematics, the differential geometry of surfaces deals with the differential geometry of smooth surfaces with various additional structures, most...
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  • inventor of "fluxions", roughly equivalent to the differentials of later versions of the differential calculus) as a genius while deriding his well-known...
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  • Grothendieck connection (category Algebraic geometry)
    In algebraic geometry and synthetic differential geometry, a Grothendieck connection is a way of viewing connections in terms of descent data from infinitesimal...
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  • Ruppeiner geometry Solid geometry Spherical geometry Symplectic geometry Synthetic geometry Systolic geometry Taxicab geometry Toric geometry Transformation...
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  • Geometria Recondita et analysi indivisibilium atque infinitorum" (On a hidden geometry and analysis of indivisibles and infinites), published in Acta Eruditorum...
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  • Dual number (category Differential algebra)
    vectors to a scheme. This allows notions from differential geometry to be imported into algebraic geometry. In detail: The ring of dual numbers may be thought...
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    In geometry, a point is an abstract idealization of an exact position, without size, in physical space, or its generalization to other kinds of mathematical...
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  • analysis. Complex geometry sits at the intersection of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and complex analysis, and uses tools from all three areas...
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    Nonstandard analysis Nonstandard calculus Internal set theory Synthetic differential geometry Smooth infinitesimal analysis Constructive nonstandard analysis...
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    is not true. In the geometries where the concept of a line is a primitive notion, as may be the case in some synthetic geometries, other methods of determining...
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    parallelism of lines. Affine geometry can be developed in two ways that are essentially equivalent. In synthetic geometry, an affine space is a set of...
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