noun
Meaning 1
The branch of geometry concerned with inversion transformations, specifically circle inversions in the Euclidean plane, but also as generalised in non-Euclidean and higher-dimensional spaces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- 1983, John Willard Milnor, On the Geometry of the Kepler Problem, The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 90, reprinted in 1994, John Milnor, Collected Papers, I: Geometry, page 261, In particular, the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, and the inversive geometry of Steiner play an important role.
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