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  2. Quadric (algebraic geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The two families of lines on a smooth (split) quadric surface. In mathematics, a quadric or quadric hypersurface is the subspace of N-dimensional space defined by a polynomial equation of degree 2 over a field. Quadrics are fundamental examples in algebraic geometry. The theory is simplified by working in projective space rather than affine ...

  3. Quadric - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a quadric or quadric surface (quadric hypersurface in higher dimensions), is a generalization of conic sections (ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas).It is a hypersurface (of dimension D) in a (D + 1)-dimensional space, and it is defined as the zero set of an irreducible polynomial of degree two in D + 1 variables; for example, D = 1 in the case of conic sections.

  4. Quadric geometric algebra - Wikipedia

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    A powerful feature of QGA is the ability to compute the intersections of axes-aligned quadric surfaces. With few exceptions, the outer product of QGA GIPNS surface entities represents their surfaces intersection(s). This method of computing intersections works the same as it does in CGA, where only spherical entities are available.

  5. Plücker coordinates - Wikipedia

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    For example, a hyperboloid of one sheet is a quadric surface in ⁠ ⁠ ruled by two different families of lines, one line of each passing through each point of the surface; each family corresponds under the Plücker map to a conic section within the Klein quadric in ⁠ ⁠.

  6. Fake projective plane - Wikipedia

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    A surface of general type with the same Betti numbers as a minimal surface not of general type must have the Betti numbers of either a projective plane P 2 or a quadric P 1 ×P 1. Shavel (1978) constructed some "fake quadrics": surfaces of general type with the same Betti numbers as quadrics. Beauville surfaces give further examples.

  7. Analytic geometry - Wikipedia

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    A quadric, or quadric surface, is a 2-dimensional surface in 3-dimensional space defined as the locus of zeros of a quadratic polynomial. In coordinates x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , the general quadric is defined by the algebraic equation [ 21 ]

  8. Paraboloid - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a paraboloid is a quadric surface that has exactly one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry. The term "paraboloid" is derived from parabola, which refers to a conic section that has a similar property of symmetry. Every plane section of a paraboloid made by a plane parallel to the axis of symmetry is a parabola.

  9. Enumerative geometry - Wikipedia

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    This problem asks for the number and construction of circles that are tangent to three given circles, points or lines. In general, the problem for three given circles has eight solutions, which can be seen as 2 3, each tangency condition imposing a quadratic condition on the space of circles. However, for special arrangements of the given ...