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  2. Position (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents a point P in space. Its length represents the distance in relation to an arbitrary reference origin O , and its direction represents the angular orientation with respect to given reference axes.

  3. List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns - Wikipedia

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    The pleasures of doing Science and technology in the planiverse: 1980 Aug: On the fine art of putting players, pills and points into their proper pigeonholes: 1980 Sep: Dr. Matrix, like Mr. Holmes, comes to an untimely and mysterious end 1980 Oct: From counting votes to making votes count: the mathematics of elections 1980 Nov

  4. Point (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a point is an abstract idealization of an exact position, without size, in physical space, [1] or its generalization to other kinds of mathematical spaces.As zero-dimensional objects, points are usually taken to be the fundamental indivisible elements comprising the space, of which one-dimensional curves, two-dimensional surfaces, and higher-dimensional objects consist; conversely ...

  5. Position and momentum spaces - Wikipedia

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    Position space (also real space or coordinate space) is the set of all position vectors r in Euclidean space, and has dimensions of length; a position vector defines a point in space. (If the position vector of a point particle varies with time, it will trace out a path, the trajectory of a particle.)

  6. Mathematical object - Wikipedia

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    Every branch of science relies largely on large and often vastly different areas of mathematics. From physics' use of Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics and differential geometry in general relativity to biology 's use of chaos theory and combinatorics (see mathematical biology ), not only does mathematics help with predictions , it allows ...

  7. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book providing an extensive overview of mathematics that was published in 2008 by Princeton University Press. Edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader , it has been noted for the high caliber of its contributors.

  8. Regula falsi - Wikipedia

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    Double false position is aimed at solving more difficult problems that can be written algebraically in the form: determine x such that = + =, if it is known that =, =. Double false position is mathematically equivalent to linear interpolation.

  9. Frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    A coordinate system in mathematics is a facet of geometry or of algebra, [9] [10] in particular, a property of manifolds (for example, in physics, configuration spaces or phase spaces). [11] [12] The coordinates of a point r in an n-dimensional space are simply an ordered set of n numbers: [13] [14]