Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space. Originally, in Euclid's Elements, it was the three-dimensional...
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height (often labeled x, y, and z). This concept of ordinary space is called Euclidean space because it corresponds to Euclid's geometry, which was originally...
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In mathematics, the Euclidean distance between two points in Euclidean space is the length of the line segment between them. It can be calculated from...
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three-dimensional Euclidean space, that is, the Euclidean space of dimension three, which models physical space. More general three-dimensional spaces are called...
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mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry. As Euclidean geometry...
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the parent space which retains the same structure. While modern mathematics uses many types of spaces, such as Euclidean spaces, linear spaces, topological...
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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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that has magnitude (or length) and direction. Euclidean vectors can be added and scaled to form a vector space. A vector quantity is a vector-valued physical...
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idealization of a flat surface in physical space such as a sheet of paper or a chalkboard. On the Euclidean plane, any two points can be joined by a unique...
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a Euclidean space of dimension n, En (Euclidean line, E; Euclidean plane, E2; Euclidean three-dimensional space, E3) form a real coordinate space of...
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Topological manifold (redirect from Locally Euclidean space)
topological space that locally resembles real n-dimensional Euclidean space. Topological manifolds are an important class of topological spaces, with applications...
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mathematics and theoretical physics, a pseudo-Euclidean space of signature (k, n-k) is a finite-dimensional real n-space together with a non-degenerate quadratic...
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Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements...
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Riemannian manifold (redirect from Riemann space)
is a geometric space on which many geometric notions such as distance, angles, length, volume, and curvature are defined. Euclidean space, the n {\displaystyle...
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Dimension (redirect from N-dimensional space)
a point on the surface of a sphere. A two-dimensional Euclidean space is a two-dimensional space on the plane. The inside of a cube, a cylinder or a sphere...
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dimensions. In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the isometry group (maps preserving the regular Euclidean distance) is the Euclidean group. It is generated by...
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Plane (mathematics) (redirect from Planar space)
three-dimensional space. When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euclidean plane refers to the whole space. Several...
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Geometry (redirect from Geometrical space)
of the word "space", which originally referred to the three-dimensional space of the physical world and its model provided by Euclidean geometry; presently...
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generalize the notion of a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space. The idea is that a compact space has no "punctures" or "missing endpoints", i.e., it...
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Honeycomb (geometry) (redirect from Three-dimensional Euclidean tesselation)
n-dimensional space. Honeycombs are usually constructed in ordinary Euclidean ("flat") space. They may also be constructed in non-Euclidean spaces, such as...
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number and zero. In vector spaces, the Euclidean norm is a measure of magnitude used to define a distance between two points in space. In physics, magnitude...
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Ball (mathematics) (redirect from Euclidean ball)
defined not only in three-dimensional Euclidean space but also for lower and higher dimensions, and for metric spaces in general. A ball in n dimensions...
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six-dimensional Euclidean space, in which 6-polytopes and the 5-sphere are constructed. Six-dimensional elliptical space and hyperbolic spaces are also studied...
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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...
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In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point. More precisely, an n {\displaystyle n} -dimensional...
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analysis and geometry. The most familiar example of a metric space is 3-dimensional Euclidean space with its usual notion of distance. Other well-known examples...
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In mathematics, an affine space is a geometric structure that generalizes some of the properties of Euclidean spaces in such a way that these are independent...
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is a fundamental result about convergence in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} . The theorem states that each...
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examine geometries that are non-Euclidean, in which space is conceived as curved, rather than flat, as in the Euclidean space. According to Albert Einstein's...
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especially general topology, the Euclidean topology is the natural topology induced on n {\displaystyle n} -dimensional Euclidean space R n {\displaystyle \mathbb...
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