In geometry, a disk (also spelled disc) is the region in a plane bounded by a circle. A disk is said to be closed if it contains the circle that constitutes...
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sphere Ball – ordinary meaning Disk (mathematics) Formal ball, an extension to negative radii Neighbourhood (mathematics) Sphere, a similar geometric shape...
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Tower of Hanoi (category Mathematical puzzles)
Towers, or simply pyramid puzzle) is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of disks of various diameters, which can slide...
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Euler's Disk, invented between 1987 and 1990 by Joseph Bendik, is a trademarked scientific educational toy. It is used to illustrate and study the dynamic...
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Absolutely convex set (redirect from Disk (functional analysis))
In mathematics, a subset C of a real or complex vector space is said to be absolutely convex or disked if it is convex and balanced (some people use the...
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can be arranged in such a way as to cover the unit disk? More unsolved problems in mathematics The disk covering problem asks for the smallest real number...
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A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...
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In mathematics, the open unit disk (or disc) around P (where P is a given point in the plane), is the set of points whose distance from P is less than...
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Momentum theory (redirect from Disk actuator theory)
dynamics, momentum theory or disk actuator theory is a theory describing a mathematical model of an ideal actuator disk, such as a propeller or helicopter...
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List of circle topics (category Outlines of mathematics and logic)
geometric shape. Circle Circle anatomy Annulus (mathematics) – Region between two concentric circles Area of a disk – Concept in geometryPages displaying short...
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discoid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Discoid may refer to: Disk (mathematics), the region in a plane enclosed by a circle Furosemide, a medication...
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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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In optics, the Airy disk (or Airy disc) and Airy pattern are descriptions of the best-focused spot of light that a perfect lens with a circular aperture...
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Special unitary group (category Mathematical physics)
|}\,v^{*}\,z+u^{*}\,{\bigr |}} so that their ratio lies in the open disk. Mathematics portal Unitary group Projective special unitary group, PSU(n) Orthogonal...
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Area of a circle (redirect from Area of a disk)
itself. Therefore, the area of a disk is the more precise phrase for the area enclosed by a circle. Modern mathematics can obtain the area using the methods...
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Incompressible surface (redirect from Compressing disk)
surface other than a sphere is incompressible if any disk with its boundary on the surface spans a disk in the surface. Incompressible surfaces are used for...
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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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rotating infinitely long plane disk, named after Theodore von Kármán who solved the problem in 1921. The rotating disk acts as a fluid pump and is used...
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Auxiliary normed space (redirect from Banach disk)
In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, two methods of constructing normed spaces from disks were systematically employed by Alexander Grothendieck...
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disk and their pointwise extension to the boundary of the disk. If we have a holomorphic function f {\displaystyle f} defined on the open unit disk D...
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Open disc can refer to: a disk (mathematics) which does not include the circle forming its boundary the OpenDisc software project This disambiguation...
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The Jefferson disk, also called the Bazeries cylinder or wheel cypher, is a cipher system commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson that uses a set of wheels...
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In mathematics, specifically in functional and complex analysis, the disk algebra A(D) (also spelled disc algebra) is the set of holomorphic functions...
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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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Moving sofa problem (category Recreational mathematics)
mathematics What is the largest area of a shape that can be maneuvered through a unit-width L-shaped corridor? More unsolved problems in mathematics In...
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circular sector, also known as circle sector or disk sector or simply a sector (symbol: ⌔), is the portion of a disk (a closed region bounded by a circle) enclosed...
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Bloch's theorem (complex analysis) (category Unsolved problems in mathematics)
mathematics, Bloch's theorem describes the behaviour of holomorphic functions defined on the unit disk. It gives a lower bound on the size of a disk in...
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RAID (redirect from Disk duplexing)
RAID (/reɪd/; redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines...
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Geodesic circle (redirect from Geodesic disk)
curvature. A geodesic disk is the region on a surface bounded by a geodesic circle. In contrast with the ordinary circle and disk, the geodesic circle...
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