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A family of subsets of a topological space such that every point has a neighborhood that intersects only one of them.

A puzzle in which one object is to be converted to another by making a finite number of cuts and reassembling it. The cuts are often, but not always, restricted to straight ...

The quantity 12 is sometimes referred to as one dozen.

In three mutually orthogonal systems of surfaces, the lines of curvature on any surface in one of the systems are its intersections with the surfaces of the other two systems.

In two dimensions, the curve known as an "egg' is an oval with one end more pointed than the other.

For an atomic integral domain R (i.e., one in which every nonzero nonunit can be factored as a product of irreducible elements) with I(R) the set of irreducible elements, the ...

One of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and integer (or rational) root extraction.

The matrix operations of 1. Interchanging two rows or columns, 2. Adding a multiple of one row or column to another, 3. Multiplying any row or column by a nonzero element.

The elongated gyrobifastigium, which could also be called an elongated digonal gyrobicupola, is a family of octahedra obtained by elongating the gyrobifastigium with four ...

Two nonsuperimposable objects which are mirror images of each other are called enantiomers. The term enantiomer is synonymous with enantiomorph. For example, the letters b ...