• geometry, a singular point on a curve is one where the curve is not given by a smooth embedding of a parameter. The precise definition of a singular point depends...
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    mathematical field of algebraic geometry, a singular point of an algebraic variety V is a point P that is 'special' (so, singular), in the geometric sense...
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    as of endpoint. This point is the only singular point of the curve. There are also two arcs having this singular point as one endpoint and having a second...
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  • at which a given mathematical object is not defined or not "well-behaved", for example infinite or not differentiable Singular point of a curve, where the...
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    typical example is given in the figure. A cusp is thus a type of singular point of a curve. For a plane curve defined by an analytic, parametric equation...
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  • an infinite cardinal number that is not a regular cardinal Singular point of a curve, in geometry Singularity (disambiguation) Singulair, Merck trademark...
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  • point, Regular singular point Saddle point Semistable point Separable point Simple point Singular point of a curve Singular point of an algebraic variety...
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    A cubic curve may have a singular point, in which case it has a parametrization in terms of a projective line. Otherwise a non-singular cubic curve is...
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    Tacnode (category Singularity theory)
    algebraic geometry, a tacnode (also called a point of osculation or double cusp) is a kind of singular point of a curve. It is defined as a point where two (or...
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  • such singular points must be counted with multiplicity (2 for a double point, 3 for a cusp), in accounting for intersections of curves. It was then a short...
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    connected components by a function of the degrees of the polynomials that define the variety. Singular point of a curve Singularity theory Milnor, John (1963)...
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    Position (geometry) Point at infinity Point cloud Point process Point set registration Pointwise Singular point of a curve Whitehead point-free geometry Ohmer...
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    geometry, an inflection point, point of inflection, flex, or inflection (rarely inflexion) is a point on a smooth plane curve at which the curvature changes...
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  • also refer to: Cusp (singularity), a singular point of a curve Cusp catastrophe, a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems Cusp...
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    mathematics, a crunode (archaic; from Latin crux "cross" + node) or node of an algebraic curve is a type of singular point at which the curve intersects...
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  • critical point Singular point of an algebraic variety, a type of singular point of a curve node, the points where a great circle crosses a plane of reference...
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    elliptic curve is a smooth, projective, algebraic curve of genus one, on which there is a specified point O. An elliptic curve is defined over a field K...
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  • non-singular, elliptic curves. Those of degree 4 are called quartic plane curves. Numerous examples of plane curves are shown in Gallery of curves and...
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    and a cylinder: one part Intersection of a sphere and a cylinder: two parts Intersection of a sphere and a cylinder: curve with one singular point Intersection...
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    defines a quadratic extension of C(x), and it is that function field that is meant. The singular point at infinity can be removed (since this is a curve) by...
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  • In mathematics, a singularity is a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point where the mathematical object ceases to be well-behaved...
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    thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that appeared more than 2000 years ago in Euclid's Elements: "The [curved] line is...
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    geometry, a dual curve of a given plane curve C is a curve in the dual projective plane consisting of the set of lines tangent to C. There is a map from a curve...
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    Tangent (redirect from Point of tangency)
    simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it...
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  • used to mean a solution at which there is a failure of uniqueness to the initial value problem at every point on the curve. A singular solution in this...
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    Acnode (category Singularity theory)
    local maximum at the singularity. Singular point of a curve Crunode Cusp Tacnode Hazewinkel, M. (2001) [1994], "Acnode", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS...
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  • property of having non-trivial endomorphisms rather than referring to a singular curve. The modular function j(τ) is algebraic on imaginary quadratic numbers...
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    conditions. The set of the points that satisfy some property is often called the locus of a point satisfying this property. The use of the singular in this formulation...
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    arithmetic genus of the curve. Noether's method takes a plane curve and repeatedly applies quadratic transformations (determined by a singular point and two points...
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  • example, an elliptic curve (a non-singular genus 1 curve with 1 marked point) is stable. Over the complex numbers, a connected curve is stable if and only...
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