conducted from geometricians. Some notable geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are: Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BC) – Euclidean...
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design of some musical instruments. Burmester's theory for the design of mechanical linkages List of mathematical shapes List of geometers List of curves...
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mathematicians List of Turkish mathematicians List of Welsh mathematicians List of actuaries List of game theorists List of geometers List of logicians List of mathematical...
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Diameter (redirect from Diameter of a point set)
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It...
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Geometry (redirect from Applications of geometry)
Category:Algebraic geometers Category:Differential geometers Category:Geometers Category:Topologists List of formulas in elementary geometry List of geometry topics...
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theoretical physics). List of films about mathematicians List of game theorists List of geometers List of logicians List of mathematicians List of mathematical...
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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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Differential geometry (redirect from Differential geometers)
definition of metric and parallelism. In Riemannian geometry, the Levi-Civita connection serves a similar purpose. More generally, differential geometers consider...
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Non-Euclidean geometry (redirect from Models of non-Euclidean geometry)
to one another. For at least a thousand years, geometers were troubled by the disparate complexity of the fifth postulate, and believed it could be proved...
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Dimension (redirect from Dimension of a manifold)
as an ordered list of points sampled from a continuous line, whereupon the software is expected to interpolate the intervening shape of the line as straight...
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Circumference (redirect from Circumference of a circle)
Geometric inequality which sets a lower bound on the surface area of a set given its volume List of formulas in elementary geometry San Diego State University...
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Pythagorean theorem (redirect from Theorem of Pythagoras)
the dates of which are given variously as between the 8th and 5th century BC, contains a list of Pythagorean triples and a statement of the Pythagorean...
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Euclidean geometry (redirect from Euclidean geometry of the plane)
geometry in which the number of special cases is reduced. Geometers of the 18th century struggled to define the boundaries of the Euclidean system. Many...
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without the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. Traditionally, this has meant using only the first four of Euclid's postulates. The term was introduced...
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The Geometer's Sketchpad is a commercial interactive geometry software program for exploring Euclidean geometry, algebra, calculus, and other areas of mathematics...
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point of which is described by a single real number. Any straight line or smooth curve is a one-dimensional space, regardless of the dimension of the ambient...
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Zero-dimensional space (category Properties of topological spaces)
with respect to one of several inequivalent notions of assigning a dimension to a given topological space. A graphical illustration of a zero-dimensional...
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Circle (redirect from List of specially named circles)
proposed by ancient geometers, of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and...
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Synthetic geometry (category Fields of geometry)
ignored by some geometers such as Jakob Steiner, in favor of a purely synthetic development of projective geometry. For example, the treatment of the projective...
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Elliptic geometry is an example of a geometry in which Euclid's parallel postulate does not hold. Instead, as in spherical geometry, there are no parallel...
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Ancient Greek σφαιρικά) is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere or the n-dimensional surface of higher dimensional spheres. Long studied...
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Line segment (section Types of line segments)
In geometry, a line segment is a part of a straight line that is bounded by two distinct end points, and contains every point on the line that is between...
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Point (geometry) (section Dimension of a point)
is an abstract idealization of an exact position, without size, in physical space, or its generalization to other kinds of mathematical spaces. As zero-dimensional...
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determine the position of a point. Most commonly, it is the three-dimensional Euclidean space, that is, the Euclidean space of dimension three, which...
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Exotic R4 Four-dimensionalism List of four-dimensional games Time in physics Spacetime Cajori, Florian (1926). "Origins of Fourth Dimension Concepts". The...
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area enclosed by a circle of radius r is πr2. Here the Greek letter π represents the constant ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter...
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In mathematics, Diophantine geometry is the study of Diophantine equations by means of powerful methods in algebraic geometry. By the 20th century it became...
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Line (geometry) (redirect from Equation of a line)
of such physical objects as a straightedge, a taut string, or a ray of light. Lines are spaces of dimension one, which may be embedded in spaces of dimension...
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curvature tensor List of differential geometry topics Glossary of Riemannian and metric geometry What follows is an incomplete list of the most classical...
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Symmetry (section Other areas of mathematics)
strategies seen in symmetric games such as tit for tat. There exists a list of journals and newsletters known to deal, at least in part, with symmetry...
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