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  2. Pushforward (differential) - Wikipedia

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    If a map, φ, carries every point on manifold M to manifold N then the pushforward of φ carries vectors in the tangent space at every point in M to a tangent space at every point in N. In differential geometry , pushforward is a linear approximation of smooth maps (formulating manifold) on tangent spaces.

  3. Special cases of Apollonius' problem - Wikipedia

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    A circle is tangent to a point if it passes through the point, and tangent to a line if they intersect at a single point P or if the line is perpendicular to a radius drawn from the circle's center to P. Circles tangent to two given points must lie on the perpendicular bisector. Circles tangent to two given lines must lie on the angle bisector.

  4. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    These lines are parallel to the desired tangent lines, because the situation corresponds to shrinking both circles C 1 and C 2 by a constant amount, r 2, which shrinks C 2 to a point. Two radial lines may be drawn from the center O 1 through the tangent points on C 3; these intersect C 1 at the desired tangent points. The desired external ...

  5. Inversive geometry - Wikipedia

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    If two tangent lines can be drawn from a pole to the circle, then its polar passes through both tangent points. If a point lies on the circle, its polar is the tangent through this point. If a point P lies on its own polar line, then P is on the circle. Each line has exactly one pole.

  6. Logistic map - Wikipedia

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    For example, when one point is plotted for r , it is a fixed point, and when m points are plotted for r, it corresponds to an m-periodic orbit. When an orbital diagram is drawn for the logistic map, it is possible to see how the branch representing the stable periodic orbit splits, which represents a cascade of period-doubling bifurcations.

  7. Monge's theorem - Wikipedia

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    For any two circles in a plane, an external tangent is a line that is tangent to both circles but does not pass between them. There are two such external tangent lines for any two circles. Each such pair has a unique intersection point in the extended Euclidean plane. Monge's theorem states that the three such points given by the three pairs of ...

  8. Gauss map - Wikipedia

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    The Gauss map provides a mapping from every point on a curve or a surface to a corresponding point on a unit sphere. In this example, the curvature of a 2D-surface is mapped onto a 1D unit circle. In differential geometry, the Gauss map of a surface is a function that maps each point in the surface to a unit vector that is orthogonal to the ...

  9. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Every point in the plane has at least one tangent line to γ passing through it, and so region filled by the tangent lines is the whole plane. The boundary E 3 is therefore the empty set. Indeed, consider a point in the plane, say (x 0,y 0). This point lies on a tangent line if and only if there exists a t such that