• In mathematics, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space is denoted SO(4). The name comes from the fact that it is...
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    rotation in four dimensions has only one fixed point, the centre of rotation, and no axis of rotation; see rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space...
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  • is six-dimensional Euclidean space, in which 6-polytopes and the 5-sphere are constructed. Six-dimensional elliptical space and hyperbolic spaces are also...
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    A two-dimensional Euclidean space is a two-dimensional space on the plane. The inside of a cube, a cylinder or a sphere is three-dimensional (3D) because...
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    three-dimensional Euclidean space, that is, the Euclidean space of dimension three, which models physical space. More general three-dimensional spaces are...
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    also a Euclidean geometric system with four real Cartesian coordinates. Cayley used quaternions to study rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. At mid-century...
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    the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics there are Euclidean spaces of any positive integer dimension n, which are...
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    (higher-dimensional analogues of the Platonic solids) that exist in Euclidean spaces of any dimension, including six found in 4-dimensional space. Schläfli's...
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    a Euclidean space of dimension n, En (Euclidean line, E; Euclidean plane, E2; Euclidean three-dimensional space, E3) form a real coordinate space of...
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  • In linear algebra, a rotation matrix is a transformation matrix that is used to perform a rotation in Euclidean space. For example, using the convention...
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  • In mathematics and theoretical physics, a pseudo-Euclidean space of signature (k, n-k) is a finite-dimensional real n-space together with a non-degenerate...
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    as ordinary rotations of the four-dimensional Euclidean sphere. The four-dimensional spacetime can be visualized as a four-dimensional space, with each...
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    unit quaternions represent a rotation in 4D space (see Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space: Algebra of 4D rotations). The set of all unit quaternions...
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    In mathematics, the Euclidean distance between two points in Euclidean space is the length of the line segment between them. It can be calculated from...
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  • describing more complex rotations in four-dimensional space and higher dimensions, where they can be used to break down the rotations into simpler parts....
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    coordinate system axis. Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal...
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  • In mechanics and geometry, the 3D rotation group, often denoted SO(3), is the group of all rotations about the origin of three-dimensional Euclidean space...
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  • system to another. In geometry the rotation group is the group of all rotations about the origin of three-dimensional Euclidean space R3 under the operation...
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    16-cell (redirect from 4-4 duopyramid)
    composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The 16-cell is a simple frame in which to observe 4-dimensional rotations, because each...
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  • Elfrinkhof described rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. A system of national secretaries was announced in the AMS Bulletin in 1899: Alexander McAulay...
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    In mathematics, an affine space is a geometric structure that generalizes some of the properties of Euclidean spaces in such a way that these are independent...
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    that has magnitude (or length) and direction. Euclidean vectors can be added and scaled to form a vector space. A vector quantity is a vector-valued physical...
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  • Versor (category Rotation in three dimensions)
    (cis(x) = cos(x) + i sin(x)) Quaternions and spatial rotation Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space Turn (geometry) Mukunda, N.; Simon, R.; Sudarshan...
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  • "pure" rotations as linear maps in a vector space equipped with Euclidean structure, not as maps of points of a corresponding affine space. In other words...
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    Spinor (category Rotation in three dimensions)
    associated with Euclidean space. A spinor transforms linearly when the Euclidean space is subjected to a slight (infinitesimal) rotation, but unlike geometric...
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    left-right symmetry. Rotational symmetry is symmetry with respect to some or all rotations in m-dimensional Euclidean space. Rotations are direct isometries...
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    In mathematics, the axis–angle representation parameterizes a rotation in a three-dimensional Euclidean space by two quantities: a unit vector e indicating...
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    points of a three-dimensional Euclidean space are uniquely determined by Euclid's axioms, and all three-dimensional Euclidean spaces are considered identical...
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  • x n {\displaystyle x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n}} in k-dimensional space ℝk, the elements of their Euclidean distance matrix A are given by squares of distances...
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    Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions...
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