¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Isometries
1. isometry [n] - See also: isometry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isometries
Literary usage of Isometries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Real Analysis by Andrew M. Bruckner, Judith B. Bruckner, Brian S. Thomson (1997)
"9.4 Homeomorphisms and isometries Given two metric spaces (X,p) and (Y,a), we
shall often need to know if there is a close relation between them. ..."
2. Elementary Real Analysis by Brian S. Thomson, Judith B. Bruckner, Andrew M. Bruckner (2000)
"A property is called a metric property if it is preserved by isometries.
Observe that an isometry is just a homeomorphism that preserves distance. ..."
3. Topics in Physical Geometry by Robert Hermann (1988)
"In the positive-Riemannian, submersion case this is a result proved first by
Reinhart Metric Homomorphisms and Croups of isometries We now examine metric ..."
4. Ricci and Levi-Civita's Tensor Analysis Paper by Robert Hermann (1975)
"(It is known (see Helgason [1]) that the group of isometries can be made into a
... It is only true if G acts as a group of isometries of a positive metric: ..."
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