analytic geometry
noun1
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences The subbranch of geometry that investigates geometrical figures via the mathematical properties of their representations in a coordinate system.
- Having thus noted the distinction between Analytic Geometry and Geometry, let us note in what way it differs from Algebra.1889, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Elements of Analytic Geometry, Ginn, published 1891, page 12:
- 1921, Claude Irwin Palmer, William Charles Krathwohl, Analytic Geometry, McGraw-Hill, page 261, In plane analytic geometry, all the points and lines are confined to one plane.
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- 2018, Peter Kuhfittig, Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry, 5th Edition, Cengage Learning (BROOKS/COLE), page 1, Analytic geometry may be defined as the study of classical geometry by means of algebra.
- Synonyms
- Cartesian geometry, coordinate geometry
- Derived terms
- complex analytic geometry, real analytic geometry
- Related terms
- affine geometry, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, projective geometry, synthetic geometry
- Coordinate terms
- affine geometry, synthetic geometry