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  2. Quadratic form - Wikipedia

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    Using homogeneous coordinates, a non-zero quadratic form in n variables defines an (n − 2)-dimensional quadric in the (n − 1)-dimensional projective space. This is a basic construction in projective geometry. In this way one may visualize 3-dimensional real quadratic forms as conic sections.

  3. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    Sprott [43] found a three-dimensional system with just five terms, that had only one nonlinear term, which exhibits chaos for certain parameter values. Zhang and Heidel [ 44 ] [ 45 ] showed that, at least for dissipative and conservative quadratic systems, three-dimensional quadratic systems with only three or four terms on the right-hand side ...

  4. Voronoi diagram - Wikipedia

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    Under relatively general conditions (the space is a possibly infinite-dimensional uniformly convex space, there can be infinitely many sites of a general form, etc.) Voronoi cells enjoy a certain stability property: a small change in the shapes of the sites, e.g., a change caused by some translation or distortion, yields a small change in the ...

  5. Hypercomplex number - Wikipedia

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    bicomplex numbers: a 4-dimensional vector space over the reals, 2-dimensional over the complex numbers, isomorphic to tessarines. multicomplex numbers: 2 n-dimensional vector spaces over the reals, 2 n−1-dimensional over the complex numbers; composition algebra: algebra with a quadratic form that composes with the product

  6. Quadric (algebraic geometry) - Wikipedia

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    By definition, a quadric X of dimension n over a field k is the subspace of + defined by q = 0, where q is a nonzero homogeneous polynomial of degree 2 over k in variables , …, +. (A homogeneous polynomial is also called a form, and so q may be called a quadratic form.)

  7. Second fundamental form - Wikipedia

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    and the second fundamental form at the origin in the coordinates (x,y) is the quadratic form L d x 2 + 2 M d x d y + N d y 2 . {\displaystyle L\,dx^{2}+2M\,dx\,dy+N\,dy^{2}\,.} For a smooth point P on S , one can choose the coordinate system so that the plane z = 0 is tangent to S at P , and define the second fundamental form in the same way.

  8. Curvature - Wikipedia

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    The intrinsic and extrinsic curvature of a surface can be combined in the second fundamental form. This is a quadratic form in the tangent plane to the surface at a point whose value at a particular tangent vector X to the surface is the normal component of the acceleration of a curve along the surface tangent to X; that is, it is the normal ...

  9. Molecular geometry - Wikipedia

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    Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule. It includes the general shape of the molecule as well as bond lengths , bond angles , torsional angles and any other geometrical parameters that determine the position of each atom.