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  2. Similarity (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Similar figures. In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they have the same shape, or if one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other.More precisely, one can be obtained from the other by uniformly scaling (enlarging or reducing), possibly with additional translation, rotation and reflection.

  3. Spiral similarity - Wikipedia

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    A spiral similarity taking triangle ABC to triangle A'B'C'. Spiral similarity is a plane transformation in mathematics composed of a rotation and a dilation. [1] It is used widely in Euclidean geometry to facilitate the proofs of many theorems and other results in geometry, especially in mathematical competitions and olympiads.

  4. Cosine similarity - Wikipedia

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    Then the Euclidean distance over the end-points of any two vectors is a proper metric which gives the same ordering as the cosine distance (a monotonic transformation of Euclidean distance; see below) for any comparison of vectors, and furthermore avoids the potentially expensive trigonometric operations required to yield a proper metric.

  5. Homothety - Wikipedia

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    In Euclidean geometry homotheties are the similarities that fix a point and either preserve (if >) or reverse (if <) the direction of all vectors. Together with the translations , all homotheties of an affine (or Euclidean) space form a group , the group of dilations or homothety-translations .

  6. Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements.Euclid's approach consists in assuming a small set of intuitively appealing axioms (postulates) and deducing many other propositions from these.

  7. Similarity measure - Wikipedia

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    On recommender systems, the method is using a distance calculation such as Euclidean Distance or Cosine Similarity to generate a similarity matrix with values representing the similarity of any pair of targets. Then, by analyzing and comparing the values in the matrix, it is possible to match two targets to a user's preference or link users ...

  8. Geometric measure theory - Wikipedia

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    Geometric measure theory was born out of the desire to solve Plateau's problem (named after Joseph Plateau) which asks if for every smooth closed curve in there exists a surface of least area among all surfaces whose boundary equals the given curve.

  9. Differential geometry of surfaces - Wikipedia

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    In the case of the sphere and the Euclidean plane, the only possible examples are the sphere itself and tori obtained as quotients of R 2 by discrete rank 2 subgroups. For closed surfaces of genus g ≥ 2 , the moduli space of Riemann surfaces obtained as Γ varies over all such subgroups, has real dimension 6 g − 6 . [ 75 ]