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120-cell
Four-dimensional analog of the dodecahedron
16-cell
Four-dimensional analog of the octahedron
24-cell
Regular object in four dimensional geometry
5-cell
Four-dimensional analogue of the tetrahedron
600-cell
Four-dimensional analog of the icosahedron
Analytic geometry
Study of geometry using a coordinate system
Angle
Figure formed by two rays meeting at a common point
Area
Size of a two-dimensional surface
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Bisection
Division of something into two equal or congruent parts
Brachistochrone curve
Fastest descent curve
Cantor set
Set of points on a line segment
Cardioid
Type of curve
Cartesian coordinate system
Most common coordinate system (geometry)
Catenary
Plane curve formed by a hanging cable
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Circumference
Perimeter of a circle or ellipse
Compact space
Topological notions of all points being "close"
Congruence (geometry)
Relationship between two figures of the same shape and size, or mirroring each other
Conic section
Curve from a cone intersecting a plane
Convex set
In geometry, set that intersects every line into a single line segment
Coordinate system
System for determining the position of a point by a tuple of scalars
Coplanarity
Geometric property of objects being on a single plane
Curve
Mathematical idealization of the trace left by a moving point
Cycloid
Curve traced by a point on a rolling circle
Cylinder
Surface formed by the points at a fixed distance from a given straight line called the axis of the cylinder; one of the most basic curvilinear geometric shapes
Cylindrical coordinate system
3-dimensional coordinate system
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Decagon
Shape with ten sides
Differential geometry
Branch of mathematics dealing with functions and geometric structures on differentiable manifolds
Dihedral angle
Angle between two planes in space
Dimension
Property of a mathematical space
Distance
Straight line that connects two points in a measurable space or in an observable physical space
Dodecahedron
Polyhedron with 12 faces
Ellipse
Plane curve: conic section
Elliptic curve
Algebraic curve
Elliptic geometry
Non-Euclidean geometry
Equilateral triangle
Type of triangle with three sides of equal length
Euclidean geometry
Mathematical model of the physical space
Euclidean plane
Geometric model of the planar projection of the physical universe
Euclidean plane
A flat two-dimensional surface
Euclidean space
Fundamental space of geometry
Euler characteristic
Topological invariant in mathematics
Field line
Visual aid to depiction of a vector field
Four-dimensional space
Geometric space with four dimensions
Fractal
Infinitely detailed mathematical structure
General topology
Branch of topology
Geometry
Branch of mathematics
Height
Measure of vertical distance
Hexagon
Shape with six sides
Homology (mathematics)
Way of associating mathematical objects
Homotopy
Continuous deformation between two continuous functions
Hyperbola
Plane curve: conic section
Hyperbolic angle
Argument of the hyperbolic functions
Hyperbolic geometry
Non-Euclidean geometry
Hyperbolic triangle
Triangle in the hyperbolic plane, possibly having ideal vertices
Icosahedron
Polyhedron with 20 faces
Internal and external angles
Term in geometry
Isosceles triangle
Triangle with at least two sides congruent
Julia set
Fractal sets in complex dynamics of mathematics
Knot theory
Study of mathematical knots
Koch snowflake
Fractal curve
Lattice (group)
Subgroup of a real vector space
Law of cosines
Property of all triangles on a Euclidean plane
Law of sines
Property of all triangles on a Euclidean plane
Lemniscate
Figure-eight-shaped curve
Length
A measure of distance in physical space
Line (geometry)
Straight figure with zero width and depth
Line–line intersection
Intersection of a line and a line can be the empty set, a point, or a line
Locus (mathematics)
Set of points that satisfy some specified conditions
Mandelbrot set
Fractal named after mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot
Manifold
Topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space
Metric space
Mathematical set defining distance
Minkowski's theorem
Every symmetric convex set in Rn with volume > 2^n contains a non-zero integer point
Non-Euclidean geometry
Two geometries based on axioms closely related to those specifying Euclidean geometry
Octagon
Polygon shape with eight sides
Octahedron
Polyhedron with eight triangular faces
One-dimensional space
Space with one dimension
Open set
Basic subset of a topological space
Parabola
Plane curve: conic section
Parallel (geometry)
Relation used in geometry
Parallelogram
Quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides
Pentagon
Shape with five sides
Perimeter
Path that surrounds an area
Perpendicular
Relationship between two lines that meet at a right angle (90 degrees)
Platonic solid
Any of the five regular polyhedra
Poincaré conjecture
Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere
Point (geometry)
Fundamental object of geometry
Polar coordinate system
Two-dimensional coordinate system where each point is determined by a distance from reference point and an angle from a reference direction
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Polyhedron
3D shape with flat faces, straight edges and sharp corners
Prism (geometry)
Solid with 2 parallel n-gonal bases connected by n parallelograms
Pyramid (geometry)
Conic solid with a polygonal base
Pythagorean theorem
Equation relating the side lengths of a right triangle
Quadrilateral
Four-sided polygon
Radius
Segment in a circle or sphere from its center to its perimeter or surface and its length
Rectangle
Quadrilateral with four right angles
Regular dodecahedron
Convex polyhedron with 12 regular pentagonal faces
Regular icosahedron
Platonic solid
Regular polygon
Equiangular and equilateral polygon
Regular polyhedron
Polyhedron with regular congruent polygons as faces
Reuleaux triangle
Reuleaux polygon with three sides
Rhombus
Quadrilateral in which all sides have the same length
Riemannian geometry
Branch of differential geometry
Right angle
90° angle (π/2 radians)
Right triangle
When one angle is a 90-degree angle
Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space
Special orthogonal group
Shape
Form of an object or its external boundary
Sierpiński triangle
Fractal composed of triangles
Similarity (geometry)
Same shape, up to a scaling
Size
Magnitude or dimension of a thing
Skew lines
Lines in 3D that do not intersect and neither do they point the same direction
Solid angle
Measure of how large an object appears to an observer at a given point in three-dimensional space
Solid geometry
Field of mathematics dealing with three-dimensional Euclidean spaces
Sphere
Geometrical object that is the surface of a ball
Spherical coordinate system
3-dimensional coordinate system
Spherical geometry
Geometry of a sphere
Square
Regular quadrilateral
Squaring the circle
Problem of constructing equal-area shapes
Surface (mathematics)
Mathematical idealization of the surface of a body
Surface area
Measure of the two-dimensional extent of a surface
Symmetry
Mathematical invariance under transformations
Symmetry (geometry)
Geometrical property and transformation
Symmetry in mathematics
Symmetry in mathematics
Systolic geometry
Minimum length of a noncontractible closed curve in a metric space
Tensor
Algebraic object with geometric applications
Tessellation
Tiling of a plane in mathematics
Tesseract (band)
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Tetrahedron
Polyhedron with 4 faces
Three-dimensional space
Geometric model of the physical space
Topological space
Mathematical space with a notion of closeness
Topology
Branch of mathematics
Trapezoid
Convex quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides
Triangle
Shape with three sides
Trigonometry
In geometry, study of the relationship between angles and lengths
Unit circle
Circle with radius of one
Volume
Quantity of three-dimensional space
Winding number
Number of times a curve wraps around a point in the plane
Zero-dimensional space
Topological space of dimension zero