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An expression is said to be ambiguous (or poorly defined) if its definition does not assign it a unique interpretation or value. An expression which is not ambiguous is said ...

An impossible hexnut modeled after the impossible torus. The figure above shows three impossible figures: the ambihelical hexnut in the lower left-hand corner, tribox in the ...

For every ergodic flow on a nonatomic probability space, there is a measurable set intersecting almost every orbit in a discrete set.

An object is amphichiral (also called reflexible) if it is superposable with its mirror image (i.e., its image in a plane mirror).

The term "amplitude" is used to refer to the magnitude of an oscillation, so the amplitude of the sinusoid y=Asin(omegat) is |A|, where |A| is the absolute value of A. The ...

A stereogram made of two pictures, one red and one blue, taken from offset positions. When the pictures are viewed through glasses with one lens of each color, the picture ...

A curve which is invariant under inversion. Examples include the cardioid, cartesian ovals, Cassini ovals, Limaçon, strophoid, and Maclaurin trisectrix.

Inference of the truth of an unknown result obtained by noting its similarity to a result already known to be true. In the hands of a skilled mathematician, analogy can be a ...

The study of the geometry of figures by algebraic representation and manipulation of equations describing their positions, configurations, and separations. Analytic geometry ...

An anchor is the bundle map rho from a vector bundle A to the tangent bundle TB satisfying 1. [rho(X),rho(Y)]=rho([X,Y]) and 2. [X,phiY]=phi[X,Y]+(rho(X)·phi)Y, where X and Y ...