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stereographic projection (Definition)

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See Also: coordinate systems, closed complex plane, Riemann sphere

Also defines:  north pole, south pole
Keywords:  projection, map
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Cross-references: smooth manifold, atlas, composition, intersects, line, straight, hyperplane, image, bijective, smooth, projection, real number, Euclidean space, points, maps, subset, Euclidean
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This is version 2 of stereographic projection, born on 2005-05-24, modified 2005-05-25.
Object id is 7110, canonical name is StereographicProjection.
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Classification:
AMS MSC51M15 (Geometry :: Real and complex geometry :: Geometric constructions)
 54C05 (General topology :: Maps and general types of spaces defined by maps :: Continuous maps)
 54C25 (General topology :: Maps and general types of spaces defined by maps :: Embedding)
 54E40 (General topology :: Spaces with richer structures :: Special maps on metric spaces)

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