Distances in Geometry

Michel Marie Deza and Elena Deza
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Michel Marie Deza: Ecole Normale Supérieure
Elena Deza: Moscow State Pedagogical University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Encyclopedia of Distances, 2016, pp 111-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. It was one of the two fields of pre-modern Mathematics, the other being the study of numbers.

Keywords: Projective Space; Riemannian Space; Hyperbolic Geometry; Geodesic Segment; Affine Space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-52844-0_6

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