real projective plane (English, noun)
expansion: real projective plane (plural real projective planes)
Senses:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional vector space over the field of real numbers in which one-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “points” and two-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “lines”. Equivalently, a sphere in which pairs of antipodal points are considered as “points” and great circles are considered as “lines”.
Forms:
form: real projective planes
tags: plural