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38-408: Surroundings , or environs is an area around a given physical or geographical point or place . The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition. In thermodynamics , the term (and its synonym, environment )

76-490: A 1 c 1 + a 2 c 2 + . . . a n c n = d } , {\displaystyle L=\lbrace (a_{1},a_{2},...a_{n})\mid a_{1}c_{1}+a_{2}c_{2}+...a_{n}c_{n}=d\rbrace ,} where c 1 through c n and d are constants and n is the dimension of the space. Similar constructions exist that define the plane , line segment , and other related concepts. A line segment consisting of only

114-541: A plane is a flat two- dimensional surface that extends indefinitely. Euclidean planes often arise as subspaces of three-dimensional space R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} . A prototypical example is one of a room's walls, infinitely extended and assumed infinitesimal thin. In two dimensions, there are infinitely many polytopes: the polygons. The first few regular ones are shown below: The Schläfli symbol { n } {\displaystyle \{n\}} represents

152-419: A regular n -gon . The regular monogon (or henagon) {1} and regular digon {2} can be considered degenerate regular polygons and exist nondegenerately in non-Euclidean spaces like a 2-sphere , 2-torus , or right circular cylinder . There exist infinitely many non-convex regular polytopes in two dimensions, whose Schläfli symbols consist of rational numbers {n/m}. They are called star polygons and share

190-533: A region D in R of a function f ( x , y ) , {\displaystyle f(x,y),} and is usually written as: The fundamental theorem of line integrals says that a line integral through a gradient field can be evaluated by evaluating the original scalar field at the endpoints of the curve. Let φ : U ⊆ R 2 → R {\displaystyle \varphi :U\subseteq \mathbb {R} ^{2}\to \mathbb {R} } . Then with p , q

228-421: A single point is called a degenerate line segment. In addition to defining points and constructs related to points, Euclid also postulated a key idea about points, that any two points can be connected by a straight line. This is easily confirmed under modern extensions of Euclidean geometry, and had lasting consequences at its introduction, allowing the construction of almost all the geometric concepts known at

266-442: A small dot or prick a small hole representing a point, or can be drawn across a surface to represent a curve. Since the advent of analytic geometry , points are often defined or represented in terms of numerical coordinates . In modern mathematics, a space of points is typically treated as a set , a point set . An isolated point is an element of some subset of points which has some neighborhood containing no other points of

304-504: A topological space X {\displaystyle X} is defined to be the minimum value of n , such that every finite open cover A {\displaystyle {\mathcal {A}}} of X {\displaystyle X} admits a finite open cover B {\displaystyle {\mathcal {B}}} of X {\displaystyle X} which refines A {\displaystyle {\mathcal {A}}} in which no point

342-473: A vector A by itself is which gives the formula for the Euclidean length of the vector. In a rectangular coordinate system, the gradient is given by For some scalar field f  : U ⊆ R → R , the line integral along a piecewise smooth curve C ⊂ U is defined as where r : [a, b] → C is an arbitrary bijective parametrization of the curve C such that r ( a ) and r ( b ) give

380-524: A way that the operation "take a value at this point" may not be defined. A further tradition starts from some books of A. N. Whitehead in which the notion of region is assumed as a primitive together with the one of inclusion or connection . Often in physics and mathematics, it is useful to think of a point as having non-zero mass or charge (this is especially common in classical electromagnetism , where electrons are idealized as points with non-zero charge). The Dirac delta function , or δ function ,

418-430: Is (informally) a generalized function on the real number line that is zero everywhere except at zero, with an integral of one over the entire real line. The delta function is sometimes thought of as an infinitely high, infinitely thin spike at the origin, with total area one under the spike, and physically represents an idealized point mass or point charge . It was introduced by theoretical physicist Paul Dirac . In

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456-499: Is a geometric space in which two real numbers are required to determine the position of each point . It is an affine space , which includes in particular the concept of parallel lines . It has also metrical properties induced by a distance , which allows to define circles , and angle measurement . A Euclidean plane with a chosen Cartesian coordinate system is called a Cartesian plane . The set R 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{2}} of

494-444: Is a primitive notion , defined as "that which has no part". Points and other primitive notions are not defined in terms of other concepts, but only by certain formal properties, called axioms , that they must satisfy; for example, "there is exactly one straight line that passes through two distinct points" . As physical diagrams, geometric figures are made with tools such as a compass , scriber , or pen, whose pointed tip can mark

532-408: Is a one-dimensional manifold . In a Euclidean plane, it has the length 2π r and the area of its interior is where r {\displaystyle r} is the radius. There are an infinitude of other curved shapes in two dimensions, notably including the conic sections : the ellipse , the parabola , and the hyperbola . Another mathematical way of viewing two-dimensional space

570-437: Is characterized as being the unique contractible 2-manifold . Its dimension is characterized by the fact that removing a point from the plane leaves a space that is connected, but not simply connected . In graph theory , a planar graph is a graph that can be embedded in the plane, i.e., it can be drawn on the plane in such a way that its edges intersect only at their endpoints. In other words, it can be drawn in such

608-430: Is defined as: A vector can be pictured as an arrow. Its magnitude is its length, and its direction is the direction the arrow points. The magnitude of a vector A is denoted by ‖ A ‖ {\displaystyle \|\mathbf {A} \|} . In this viewpoint, the dot product of two Euclidean vectors A and B is defined by where θ is the angle between A and B . The dot product of

646-404: Is defined by dim H ⁡ ( X ) := inf { d ≥ 0 : C H d ( X ) = 0 } . {\displaystyle \operatorname {dim} _{\operatorname {H} }(X):=\inf\{d\geq 0:C_{H}^{d}(X)=0\}.} A point has Hausdorff dimension 0 because it can be covered by a single ball of arbitrarily small radius. Although

684-440: Is found in linear algebra , where the idea of independence is crucial. The plane has two dimensions because the length of a rectangle is independent of its width. In the technical language of linear algebra, the plane is two-dimensional because every point in the plane can be described by a linear combination of two independent vectors . The dot product of two vectors A = [ A 1 , A 2 ] and B = [ B 1 , B 2 ]

722-424: Is given by an ordered pair of real numbers, each number giving the distance of that point from the origin measured along the given axis, which is equal to the distance of that point from the other axis. Another widely used coordinate system is the polar coordinate system , which specifies a point in terms of its distance from the origin and its angle relative to a rightward reference ray. In Euclidean geometry ,

760-398: Is included in more than n +1 elements. If no such minimal n exists, the space is said to be of infinite covering dimension. A point is zero-dimensional with respect to the covering dimension because every open cover of the space has a refinement consisting of a single open set. Let X be a metric space . If S ⊂ X and d ∈ [0, ∞) , the d -dimensional Hausdorff content of S

798-652: Is the infimum of the set of numbers δ ≥ 0 such that there is some (indexed) collection of balls { B ( x i , r i ) : i ∈ I } {\displaystyle \{B(x_{i},r_{i}):i\in I\}} covering S with r i > 0 for each i ∈ I that satisfies ∑ i ∈ I r i d < δ . {\displaystyle \sum _{i\in I}r_{i}^{d}<;\delta .} The Hausdorff dimension of X

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836-402: Is used in a more restricted sense, meaning everything outside the thermodynamic system . Often, the simplifying assumptions are that energy and matter may move freely within the surroundings, and that the surroundings have a uniform composition. [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of surroundings at Wiktionary Point (geometry) In classical Euclidean geometry , a point

874-408: The vertical and is often denoted by y . This idea is easily generalized to three-dimensional Euclidean space , where a point is represented by an ordered triplet ( x ,  y ,  z ) with the additional third number representing depth and often denoted by z . Further generalizations are represented by an ordered tuplet of n terms, ( a 1 ,  a 2 , … ,  a n ) where n is the dimension of

912-527: The common definitions, a point is 0-dimensional. The dimension of a vector space is the maximum size of a linearly independent subset. In a vector space consisting of a single point (which must be the zero vector 0 ), there is no linearly independent subset. The zero vector is not itself linearly independent, because there is a non-trivial linear combination making it zero: 1 ⋅ 0 = 0 {\displaystyle 1\cdot \mathbf {0} =\mathbf {0} } . The topological dimension of

950-568: The context of signal processing it is often referred to as the unit impulse symbol (or function). Its discrete analog is the Kronecker delta function which is usually defined on a finite domain and takes values 0 and 1. Plane (geometry) In mathematics , a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two , denoted E 2 {\displaystyle {\textbf {E}}^{2}} or E 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {E} ^{2}} . It

988-425: The discovery. Both authors used a single ( abscissa ) axis in their treatments, with the lengths of ordinates measured along lines not-necessarily-perpendicular to that axis. The concept of using a pair of fixed axes was introduced later, after Descartes' La Géométrie was translated into Latin in 1649 by Frans van Schooten and his students. These commentators introduced several concepts while trying to clarify

1026-462: The endpoints of C and a < b {\displaystyle a<b} . For a vector field F  : U ⊆ R → R , the line integral along a piecewise smooth curve C ⊂ U , in the direction of r , is defined as where · is the dot product and r : [a, b] → C is a bijective parametrization of the curve C such that r ( a ) and r ( b ) give the endpoints of C . A double integral refers to an integral within

1064-399: The endpoints of the curve γ. Let C be a positively oriented , piecewise smooth , simple closed curve in a plane , and let D be the region bounded by C . If L and M are functions of ( x , y ) defined on an open region containing D and have continuous partial derivatives there, then where the path of integration along C is counterclockwise . In topology , the plane

1102-617: The ideas contained in Descartes' work. Later, the plane was thought of as a field , where any two points could be multiplied and, except for 0, divided. This was known as the complex plane . The complex plane is sometimes called the Argand plane because it is used in Argand diagrams. These are named after Jean-Robert Argand (1768–1822), although they were first described by Danish-Norwegian land surveyor and mathematician Caspar Wessel (1745–1818). Argand diagrams are frequently used to plot

1140-525: The notion of a point is generally considered fundamental in mainstream geometry and topology, there are some systems that forgo it, e.g. noncommutative geometry and pointless topology . A "pointless" or "pointfree" space is defined not as a set , but via some structure ( algebraic or logical respectively) which looks like a well-known function space on the set: an algebra of continuous functions or an algebra of sets respectively. More precisely, such structures generalize well-known spaces of functions in

1178-502: The ordered pairs of real numbers (the real coordinate plane ), equipped with the dot product , is often called the Euclidean plane or standard Euclidean plane , since every Euclidean plane is isomorphic to it. Books I through IV and VI of Euclid's Elements dealt with two-dimensional geometry, developing such notions as similarity of shapes, the Pythagorean theorem (Proposition 47), equality of angles and areas , parallelism,

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1216-427: The positions of the poles and zeroes of a function in the complex plane. In mathematics, analytic geometry (also called Cartesian geometry) describes every point in two-dimensional space by means of two coordinates. Two perpendicular coordinate axes are given which cross each other at the origin . They are usually labeled x and y . Relative to these axes, the position of any point in two-dimensional space

1254-542: The same unit of length . Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis of the system, and the point where they meet is its origin , usually at ordered pair (0, 0). The coordinates can also be defined as the positions of the perpendicular projections of the point onto the two axes, expressed as signed distances from the origin. The idea of this system was developed in 1637 in writings by Descartes and independently by Pierre de Fermat , although Fermat also worked in three dimensions, and did not publish

1292-404: The same vertex arrangements of the convex regular polygons. In general, for any natural number n, there are n-pointed non-convex regular polygonal stars with Schläfli symbols { n / m } for all m such that m < n /2 (strictly speaking { n / m } = { n /( n − m )}) and m and n are coprime . The hypersphere in 2 dimensions is a circle , sometimes called a 1-sphere ( S ) because it

1330-458: The space in which the point is located. Many constructs within Euclidean geometry consist of an infinite collection of points that conform to certain axioms. This is usually represented by a set of points; As an example, a line is an infinite set of points of the form L = { ( a 1 , a 2 , . . . a n ) ∣

1368-441: The subset. Points, considered within the framework of Euclidean geometry , are one of the most fundamental objects. Euclid originally defined the point as "that which has no part". In the two-dimensional Euclidean plane , a point is represented by an ordered pair ( x ,  y ) of numbers, where the first number conventionally represents the horizontal and is often denoted by x , and the second number conventionally represents

1406-432: The sum of the angles in a triangle, and the three cases in which triangles are "equal" (have the same area), among many other topics. Later, the plane was described in a so-called Cartesian coordinate system , a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates , which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in

1444-431: The time. However, Euclid's postulation of points was neither complete nor definitive, and he occasionally assumed facts about points that did not follow directly from his axioms, such as the ordering of points on the line or the existence of specific points. In spite of this, modern expansions of the system serve to remove these assumptions. There are several inequivalent definitions of dimension in mathematics. In all of

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