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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Plane (mathematics), generalizations of a geometrical plane Plane or planes may also refer to: Plane (tree) or Platanus, wetland native plant Planes (genus)...
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In mathematics, a projection is an idempotent mapping of a set (or other mathematical structure) into a subset (or sub-structure). In this case, idempotent...
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In mathematics, a reflection (also spelled reflexion) is a mapping from a Euclidean space to itself that is an isometry with a hyperplane as the set of...
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Tessellation (redirect from Tiling the plane)
covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized...
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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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Line (geometry) (redirect from Ray (mathematics))
Nunemacher, Jeffrey (1999), "Asymptotes, Cubic Curves, and the Projective Plane", Mathematics Magazine, 72 (3): 183–192, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.502.72, doi:10.2307/2690881...
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transformations of the plane that preserve angles. The discovery of invariants is an important step in the process of classifying mathematical objects. A simple...
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In mathematics, a plane curve is a curve in a plane that may be a Euclidean plane, an affine plane or a projective plane. The most frequently studied...
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In mathematics, a projective plane is a geometric structure that extends the concept of a plane. In the ordinary Euclidean plane, two lines typically...
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In mathematics, the complex plane is the plane formed by the complex numbers, with a Cartesian coordinate system such that the horizontal x-axis, called...
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In mathematics, the Cayley plane (or octonionic projective plane) P2(O) is a projective plane over the octonions. The Cayley plane was discovered in 1933...
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Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences...
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In mathematics, particularly in differential geometry, an osculating plane is a plane in a Euclidean space or affine space which meets a submanifold at...
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{-1}}} , allows there to be a consistent set of mathematics referred to as the complex number plane. Therefore, within the discourse of complex numbers...
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In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds...
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In mathematics, the origin of a Euclidean space is a special point, usually denoted by the letter O, used as a fixed point of reference for the geometry...
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Coordinate system (redirect from Coordinate plane)
x-coordinate". The coordinates are taken to be real numbers in elementary mathematics, but may be complex numbers or elements of a more abstract system such...
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this line) from any projective plane. In the applications of mathematics, there are often situations where an affine plane without the Euclidean metric...
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Algebraic curve (redirect from Sextic plane curve)
In mathematics, an affine algebraic plane curve is the zero set of a polynomial in two variables. A projective algebraic plane curve is the zero set in...
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In mathematics, a Minkowski plane (named after Hermann Minkowski) is one of the Benz planes (the others being Möbius plane and Laguerre plane). Applying...
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Euclidean plane was defined as the locus of a point that is at a given distance of a fixed point, the center of the circle. In modern mathematics, similar...
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In mathematics, the upper half-plane, H , {\displaystyle {\mathcal {H}},} is the set of points ( x , y ) {\displaystyle (x,y)} in the Cartesian...
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In mathematics, an annulus (pl.: annuli or annuluses) is the region between two concentric circles. Informally, it is shaped like a ring or a hardware...
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the inclined plane was solved mathematically and classed with the other simple machines. The first correct analysis of the inclined plane appeared in the...
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Möbius strip (category Recreational mathematics)
lies flat in three parallel planes between three cylindrical rollers, each tangent to two of the planes. Mathematically, a smoothly embedded sheet of...
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parallel planes. A parallelepiped is a region bounded by three pairs of parallel planes. Euclid set forth the first great landmark of mathematical thought...
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Cartesian coordinate system (redirect from Cartesian plane)
respectively. Then the coordinate planes can be referred to as the xy-plane, yz-plane, and xz-plane. In mathematics, physics, and engineering contexts...
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In mathematics, a surface is a mathematical model of the common concept of a surface. It is a generalization of a plane, but, unlike a plane, it may be...
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