• In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero...
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  • Plane (mathematics), generalizations of a geometrical plane Plane or planes may also refer to: Plane (tree) or Platanus, wetland native plant Planes (genus)...
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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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    In mathematics, the complex plane is the plane formed by the complex numbers, with a Cartesian coordinate system such that the horizontal x-axis, called...
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    covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized...
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    transformations of the plane that preserve angles. The discovery of invariants is an important step in the process of classifying mathematical objects. A simple...
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  • In mathematics, a projection is an idempotent mapping of a set (or other mathematical structure) into a subset (or sub-structure). In this case, idempotent...
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  • Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs...
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    Nunemacher, Jeffrey (1999), "Asymptotes, Cubic Curves, and the Projective Plane", Mathematics Magazine, 72 (3): 183–192, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.502.72, doi:10.2307/2690881...
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    In mathematics, a reflection (also spelled reflexion) is a mapping from a Euclidean space to itself that is an isometry with a hyperplane as a set of...
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  • Geometry (section Planes)
    ratio and proportion, and barter) and "practical mathematics" (including mixture, mathematical series, plane figures, stacking bricks, sawing of timber, and...
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  • 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...
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    In mathematics, the origin of a Euclidean space is a special point, usually denoted by the letter O, used as a fixed point of reference for the geometry...
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    Hyperboloid, American Mathematical Monthly 100:442–455. Gans David (March 1966). "A New Model of the Hyperbolic Plane". American Mathematical Monthly. 73 (3):...
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    In mathematics, a projective plane is a geometric structure that extends the concept of a plane. In the ordinary Euclidean plane, two lines typically...
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    x-coordinate". The coordinates are taken to be real numbers in elementary mathematics, but may be complex numbers or elements of a more abstract system such...
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    In mathematics, two sequences of numbers, often experimental data, are proportional or directly proportional if their corresponding elements have a constant...
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    infinity". Mathematically, points at infinity have the advantage of allowing one to not consider some special cases. For example, in a projective plane, two...
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    coordinate hyperplanes can be referred to as the XY-plane, YZ-plane, and XZ-plane. In mathematics, physics, and engineering contexts, the first two axes...
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  • geometry, an affine plane is a two-dimensional affine space. Typical examples of affine planes are Euclidean planes, which are affine planes over the reals...
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    Euclidean plane was defined as the locus of a point that is at a given distance of a fixed point, the center of the circle. In modern mathematics, similar...
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    Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that can be considered "discrete" (in a way analogous to discrete variables, having a bijection...
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  • Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions...
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  • In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds...
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    Curve (redirect from Curve (mathematics))
    In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively...
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    In mathematics, particularly in differential geometry, an osculating plane is a plane in a Euclidean space or affine space which meets a submanifold at...
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    Möbius strip (category Recreational mathematics)
    lies flat in three parallel planes between three cylindrical rollers, each tangent to two of the planes. Mathematically, a smoothly embedded sheet of...
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    In mathematics, an annulus (pl.: annuli or annuluses) is the region between two concentric circles. Informally, it is shaped like a ring or a hardware...
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    Tangent (redirect from Tangent plane)
    In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at...
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    the inclined plane was solved mathematically and classed with the other simple machines. The first correct analysis of the inclined plane appeared in the...
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