In mathematics, a Klein geometry is a type of geometry motivated by Felix Klein in his influential Erlangen program. More specifically, it is a homogeneous...
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Euclidean geometry, they described their geometry under many different names; Felix Klein finally gave the subject the name hyperbolic geometry to include...
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Study of the flat structures is sometimes termed Möbius geometry, and is a type of Klein geometry. A conformal manifold is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold...
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experimental physics, but by the time Klein became his assistant, in 1866, Plücker's interest was mainly geometry. Klein received his doctorate, supervised...
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hyperbolic geometry, elliptic geometry, and Euclidean geometry. The field of non-Euclidean geometry rests largely on the footing provided by Cayley–Klein metrics...
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topology Klein geometry Klein configuration, in geometry Klein cubic (disambiguation) Klein graphs, in graph theory Klein model, or Beltrami–Klein model, a...
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interesting cosmological models. The Kaluza–Klein theory has a particularly elegant presentation in terms of geometry. In a certain sense, it looks just like...
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non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry. As Euclidean geometry lies at the...
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Erlangen program (redirect from Klein's Erlangen programme)
is a method of characterizing geometries based on group theory and projective geometry. It was published by Felix Klein in 1872 as Vergleichende Betrachtungen...
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geometry, the Beltrami–Klein model, also called the projective model, Klein disk model, and the Cayley–Klein model, is a model of hyperbolic geometry...
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According to Felix Klein Synthetic geometry is that which studies figures as such, without recourse to formulae, whereas analytic geometry consistently makes...
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Information geometry Integral geometry Inversive geometry Inversive ring geometry Klein geometry Lie sphere geometry Non-Euclidean geometry Noncommutative...
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Cartan connection (redirect from Cartan geometry)
geometry extends the notion of a Klein geometry by attaching to each point of a manifold a copy of a Klein geometry, and to regard this copy as tangent...
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Projective geometry, like affine and Euclidean geometry, can also be developed from the Erlangen program of Felix Klein; projective geometry is characterized...
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was in the new geometries of Bolyai and Lobachevsky, Riemann, Clifford and Klein, and Sophus Lie that Klein's idea to 'define a geometry via its symmetry...
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elliptic geometry when he wrote "On the definition of distance".: 82 This venture into abstraction in geometry was followed by Felix Klein and Bernhard...
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Möbius wrote on affine geometry in his Der barycentrische Calcul (chapter 3). After Felix Klein's Erlangen program, affine geometry was recognized as a generalization...
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identifying tangent spaces with the tangent space of a certain model Klein geometry Ehresmann connection, gives a manner for differentiating sections of...
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Homogeneous space (section Geometry)
notably Clifford–Klein forms Γ\G/H, where Γ is a discrete subgroup (of G) acting properly discontinuously. For example, in the line geometry case, we can...
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cohomology elliptic complex Hodge theory pseudodifferential operator Klein geometry, Erlangen programme symmetric space space form Maurer–Cartan form Examples...
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Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds....
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systematic effort to use transformations as the foundation of geometry was made by Felix Klein in the 19th century, under the name Erlangen programme. For...
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Connection (mathematics) (redirect from Connection (differential geometry))
these geometries and more: his connection concept allowed for the presence of curvature which would otherwise be absent in a classical Klein geometry. (See...
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In geometry, a point is an abstract idealization of an exact position, without size, in physical space, or its generalization to other kinds of mathematical...
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In mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system. This contrasts...
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Five-dimensional space (redirect from Fifth dimension (geometry))
time-series into 2D manifolds (kime-surfaces). According to Klein's definition, "a geometry is the study of the invariant properties of a spacetime, under...
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Spherical geometry or spherics (from Ancient Greek σφαιρικά) is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere or the n-dimensional surface of...
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In geometry, a straight line, usually abbreviated line, is an infinitely long object with no width, depth, or curvature, an idealization of such physical...
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Diameter (redirect from Diameter (geometry))
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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Absolute geometry is a geometry based on an axiom system for Euclidean geometry without the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. Traditionally...
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