inversive geometry

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词形变化

inversive geometries 复数 inversive geometries

释义与例句

n.
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    The branch of geometry concerned with inversion transformations, specifically circle inversions in the Euclidean plane, but also as generalised in non-Euclidean and higher-dimensional spaces.

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    1983, John Willard Milnor, On the Geometry of the Kepler Problem, The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 90, reprinted in 1994, John Milnor, Collected Papers, I: Geometry, page 261, In particular, the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, and the inversive geometry of Steiner play an important role.