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}...
16 KB (1,967 words) - 04:10, 26 October 2024
In geometry, a Euclidean plane isometry is an isometry of the Euclidean plane, or more informally, a way of transforming the plane that preserves geometrical...
23 KB (3,411 words) - 05:58, 24 September 2024
In Euclidean geometry, a plane is a flat two-dimensional surface that extends indefinitely. Euclidean planes often arise as subspaces of three-dimensional...
17 KB (2,817 words) - 18:56, 18 September 2024
Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements...
58 KB (7,005 words) - 20:53, 7 November 2024
distance from a point to a line, in the Euclidean plane The distance from a point to a plane in three-dimensional Euclidean space The distance between two lines...
25 KB (3,187 words) - 10:11, 23 August 2024
two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euclidean plane refers to the whole space. Several notions of a plane may be defined...
7 KB (1,672 words) - 01:49, 8 October 2024
commonly called respectively Euclidean lines and Euclidean planes. The qualifier "Euclidean" is used to distinguish Euclidean spaces from other spaces that...
47 KB (6,964 words) - 20:52, 7 November 2024
geometry, the traditional non-Euclidean geometries. When the metric requirement is relaxed, then there are affine planes associated with the planar algebras...
44 KB (6,026 words) - 01:21, 19 October 2024
mathematics, a projective plane is a geometric structure that extends the concept of a plane. In the ordinary Euclidean plane, two lines typically intersect...
51 KB (6,624 words) - 21:52, 16 November 2024
Hyperbolic geometry (redirect from Hyperbolic plane)
a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with: For any given line R and point P not on R, in the plane containing...
56 KB (6,939 words) - 03:49, 22 November 2024
non-Euclidean geometry, the Poincaré half-plane model is a way of representing the hyperbolic plane using points in the familiar Euclidean plane. Specifically...
24 KB (3,972 words) - 22:36, 28 September 2024
, is a two-dimensional projective space, similar to the familiar Euclidean plane in many respects but without the concepts of distance, circles, angle...
20 KB (2,704 words) - 02:15, 16 October 2024
Euclidean plane tilings by convex regular polygons have been widely used since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler...
31 KB (1,998 words) - 17:29, 22 September 2024
Outline of geometry (section Euclidean plane geometry)
sphere geometry Non-Euclidean geometry Noncommutative algebraic geometry Noncommutative geometry Ordered geometry Parabolic geometry Plane geometry Projective...
13 KB (910 words) - 13:17, 13 September 2024
Conic section (redirect from Quadratic plane curve)
Perga's systematic work on their properties. The conic sections in the Euclidean plane have various distinguishing properties, many of which can be used as...
69 KB (9,164 words) - 08:19, 2 November 2024
Cartesian coordinate system (redirect from Cartesian plane)
three mutually perpendicular planes. More generally, n Cartesian coordinates specify the point in an n-dimensional Euclidean space for any dimension n....
41 KB (5,518 words) - 17:55, 14 November 2024
Two-dimensional space (section Non-Euclidean)
represent physical positions, like an affine plane or complex plane. The most basic example is the flat Euclidean plane, an idealization of a flat surface in...
7 KB (803 words) - 22:02, 19 August 2024
Tessellation (redirect from Euclidean tiling)
floors. More formally, a tessellation or tiling is a cover of the Euclidean plane by a countable number of closed sets, called tiles, such that the tiles...
58 KB (6,042 words) - 15:04, 19 August 2024
Parallel (geometry) (redirect from Parallel plane)
and keep a fixed minimum distance. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, a line and a plane that do not share a point are also said to be parallel. However...
23 KB (2,771 words) - 04:12, 2 November 2024
In mathematics, a plane curve is a curve in a plane that may be a Euclidean plane, an affine plane or a projective plane. The most frequently studied cases...
5 KB (670 words) - 00:49, 20 April 2024
the study of incidence structures. A geometric structure such as the Euclidean plane is a complicated object that involves concepts such as length, angles...
27 KB (3,316 words) - 07:34, 29 August 2023
In mathematics, a Euclidean group is the group of (Euclidean) isometries of a Euclidean space E n {\displaystyle \mathbb {E} ^{n}} ; that is, the transformations...
16 KB (2,146 words) - 01:07, 22 July 2024
Elliptic geometry (redirect from Elliptic plane)
geometry has a variety of properties that differ from those of classical Euclidean plane geometry. For example, the sum of the interior angles of any triangle...
18 KB (2,642 words) - 01:10, 21 August 2024
Three-dimensional space (redirect from Euclidean 3-space)
of a point. Most commonly, it is the three-dimensional Euclidean space, that is, the Euclidean space of dimension three, which models physical space....
34 KB (4,829 words) - 09:40, 22 November 2024
Spherical geometry (redirect from Spherical plane)
tools of spherical trigonometry are in many respects analogous to Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, but also have some important differences...
15 KB (1,955 words) - 02:05, 6 May 2024
semiregular) of the Euclidean plane, and their dual tilings. There are three regular and eight semiregular tilings in the plane. The semiregular tilings...
15 KB (953 words) - 03:56, 4 September 2024
A Euclidean minimum spanning tree of a finite set of points in the Euclidean plane or higher-dimensional Euclidean space connects the points by a system...
55 KB (6,649 words) - 15:08, 7 June 2024
Geometry (section Euclidean geometry)
geometry was almost exclusively devoted to Euclidean geometry, which includes the notions of point, line, plane, distance, angle, surface, and curve, as...
100 KB (9,886 words) - 12:28, 17 November 2024
Duality (projective geometry) (redirect from Dual projective plane)
into a correlation, the Euclidean plane (which is not a projective plane) needs to be expanded to the extended euclidean plane by adding a line at infinity...
47 KB (5,681 words) - 11:07, 9 October 2024
The axes of a two-dimensional Cartesian system divide the plane into four infinite regions, called quadrants, each bounded by two half-axes. The axes...
2 KB (190 words) - 04:28, 21 October 2024