inversive geometries
inversive geometries is the plural of inversive geometry.
Meaning of inversive geometry
Noun
inversive geometry (countable and uncountable, plural inversive geometries)
- 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.
- In particular, the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, and the inversive geometry of Steiner play an important role.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
Questions about inversive geometries
- What is inversive geometries the plural of?
- Inversive geometries is the plural of inversive geometry.
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