• topology and polyhedral combinatorics, the Euler characteristic (or Euler number, or Euler–Poincaré characteristic) is a topological invariant, a number that...
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    PDEs. Otherwise, Euler's equation may refer to a non-differential equation, as in these three cases: Euler–Lotka equation, a characteristic equation employed...
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  • geometry, the Euler characteristic of an orbifold, or orbifold Euler characteristic, is a generalization of the topological Euler characteristic that includes...
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  • fibration becomes trivial after taking a finite cover of B. The orbifold Euler characteristic χ ( B ) {\displaystyle \chi (B)} of the orbifold B is given by χ...
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    polyhedron equals 2, a number now commonly known as the Euler characteristic. In the field of physics, Euler reformulated Newton's laws of physics into new laws...
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  • eigenvector of a matrix Characteristic word, a subclass of Sturmian word Euler characteristic, a topological invariant Method of characteristics, a technique for...
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  • Galois cohomology, the local Euler characteristic formula is a result due to John Tate that computes the Euler characteristic of the group cohomology of...
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  • important examples of characteristic numbers are Stiefel–Whitney numbers, Chern numbers, Pontryagin numbers, and the Euler characteristic. Given an oriented...
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  • cohomology and singular cohomology such as Hodge theory, and formulas on Euler characteristics in coherent sheaf cohomology such as the Riemann–Roch theorem. In...
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    is the Euler characteristic of M {\displaystyle M} . A particularly useful corollary is when there is a non-vanishing vector field implying Euler characteristic...
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    E = 2 edges, and F = 1 face. Thus the Euler characteristic of the torus is 1 − 2 + 1 = 0. The Euler characteristic of other surfaces is a useful topological...
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    ds is the line element along the boundary of M. Here, χ(M) is the Euler characteristic of M. If the boundary ∂M is piecewise smooth, then we interpret the...
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  • respectively in two and three dimensions. Attempts to generalise the Euler characteristic of polyhedra to higher-dimensional polytopes led to the development...
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  • The Euler characteristic, a topological invariant. The receiver operating characteristic in statistical decision theory. The point characteristic function...
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  • The 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) is among the most prolific and successful mathematicians in the history of the field....
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    the Euler equations are a set of quasilinear partial differential equations governing adiabatic and inviscid flow. They are named after Leonhard Euler. In...
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    All polyhedra with odd-numbered Euler characteristic are non-orientable. A given figure with even Euler characteristic may or may not be orientable. For...
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  • reason that the Euler characteristic has a definition in terms of homology groups; see below for the relation to the Euler characteristic). In the particular...
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  • also contain tetrahedral symmetry. The five Platonic solids have an Euler characteristic of 2. This simply reflects that the surface is a topological 2-sphere...
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    all of the indices at all of the zeros must be two, because the Euler characteristic of the 2-sphere is two. Therefore, there must be at least one zero...
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    [citation needed] For any polyhedron homeomorphic to a sphere, the Euler characteristic is χ = V − E + F = 2 {\displaystyle \chi =V-E+F=2} , where V {\displaystyle...
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  • Friedrich Gauss, and Pierre Ossian Bonnet) states that the Euler–Poincaré characteristic (a topological invariant defined as the alternating sum of the...
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  • }(-1)^{i}b_{i}(K,F),\,} where χ ( K ) {\displaystyle \chi (K)} denotes Euler characteristic of K and any field F. For any two spaces X and Y we have P X × Y...
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    family are nonorientable. The Euler characteristic of the real projective plane is 1, and in general the Euler characteristic of the connected sum of k of...
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  • in algebraic topology, the Euler class is a characteristic class of oriented, real vector bundles. Like other characteristic classes, it measures how "twisted"...
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    Refutations, Cambridge University Press (1976) - discussion of proof of Euler characteristic Wenninger, Magnus (1983). Dual Models. Cambridge University Press...
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    electrophoresis. In neuroscience, topological quantities like the Euler characteristic and Betti number have been used to measure the complexity of patterns...
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  • the Euler characteristic of the total space is given by: χ ( E ) = χ ( B ) χ ( F ) . {\displaystyle \chi (E)=\chi (B)\chi (F).} Here the Euler characteristics...
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  • {\displaystyle \int _{\Sigma }K\,dA=2\pi \chi (\Sigma )} where χ(Σ) is the Euler characteristic, which is an integer. An example is the surface area of a sphere...
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  • holes). So in this case, the Euler characteristic is -1. To bring this into the discrete world, the Euler characteristic of a mesh is computed in terms...
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