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curve (Definition)
Curve

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See Also: fundamental group, tangent space, real tree

Other names:  parametrized curve, parameterized curve, path, trajectory
Also defines:  closed curve, Jordan curve, regular curve, simple closed curve, simple curve, plane curve, planar curve, convex curve, locally convex curve, local multiplicity, globally convex, global multiplicity

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asymptote (Definition) by pahio
tractrix (Derivation) by pahio
catenary (Derivation) by pahio
locus (Definition) by pahio
singular points of plane curve (Topic) by pahio
osculating curve (Definition) by pahio
logarithmic spiral (Topic) by pahio
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Cross-references: homeomorphic, wild, embeddings, pathological, order, equivalence class, equivalence relation, relation, composition, inverse, monotone decreasing, monotone increasing, derivative, continuously differentiable, reparameterization, equivalent, chart, neighbourhood, open, submanifold, connected, non-singular, vector-valued function, tangent space, belongs, differentiable, differential manifold, dimension, odd, ellipse, closed, affine hyperplane, sum, points, hyperplane, intersection, smooth, unit circle, domain, loop, endpoints, closed interval, injective, mapping, topological space, continuous mapping, line, complex, Riemann surface, surface, geometry, object, ground field, complex numbers, variety, algebraic geometry, multiple, conversely, image, subset, arc, variable, real, function
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This is version 25 of curve, born on 2002-08-01, modified 2007-10-21.
Object id is 3255, canonical name is Curve.
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AMS MSC51N05 (Geometry :: Analytic and descriptive geometry :: Descriptive geometry)
 53B25 (Differential geometry :: Local differential geometry :: Local submanifolds)
 14F35 (Algebraic geometry :: homology theory :: Homotopy theory; fundamental groups)
 14H50 (Algebraic geometry :: Curves :: Plane and space curves)

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