barycentric coordinate system

coordinate system in which the location of a point of a simplex is specified as the center of mass, or barycenter, of usually unequal masses placed at its vertices
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barycentric coordinate system

Summary

barycentric coordinate system ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (531 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • barycentric coordinate system is credited with the discovery of August Ferdinand Möbius[2].
  • barycentric coordinate system's subclass of is recorded as coordinate system[3].
  • barycentric coordinate system's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/039ccq[4].
  • barycentric coordinate system's uses is recorded as center of mass[5].
  • barycentric coordinate system's defining formula is recorded as M = P + \alpha_0\cdot\overrightarrow{PP}_0+\alpha_1\cdot\overrightarrow{PP}_1+\ldots+\alpha_n\cdot\overrightarrow{PP}_n; \alpha_0+\alpha_1+\ldots+\alpha_n=1[6].
  • barycentric coordinate system's MathWorld ID is recorded as BarycentricCoordinates[7].
  • barycentric coordinate system's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[8].
  • barycentric coordinate system's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 128356825[9].
  • barycentric coordinate system's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C128356825[10].
  • barycentric coordinate system's Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID is recorded as 2219[11].

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Works and Contributions

barycentric coordinate system is credited with the discovery of August Ferdinand Möbius[2].

Why It Matters

barycentric coordinate system ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (531 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

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  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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