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geodesic curve

straight path on a curved surface or a Riemannian manifold
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geodesic curve

Summary

geodesic curve ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (629 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • geodesic curve's GND ID is recorded as 4156669-5[2].
  • geodesic curve's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85053967[3].
  • geodesic curve's subclass of is recorded as curve[4].
  • geodesic curve's Commons category is recorded as Geodesic (mathematics)[5].
  • geodesic curve's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0mm26[6].
  • geodesic curve's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Geodesic (mathematics)[7].
  • geodesic curve's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0185980[8].
  • geodesic curve's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].
  • geodesic curve's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[10].
  • geodesic curve's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/geodesic[11].
  • geodesic curve's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00040153n[12].
  • geodesic curve's MathWorld ID is recorded as Geodesic[13].
  • geodesic curve's Mathematics Subject Classification ID is recorded as 53C22[14].
  • geodesic curve's Quora topic ID is recorded as Geodesic[15].
  • geodesic curve's nLab ID is recorded as geodesic[16].
  • geodesic curve's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as geodetisk_kurve[17].
  • geodesic curve's World of Physics ID is recorded as Geodesic[18].
  • geodesic curve's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[19].
  • geodesic curve's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 165818556[20].
  • geodesic curve's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Geodesic_Curve[21].
  • geodesic curve's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3904883[22].
  • geodesic curve's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007562985805171[23].
  • geodesic curve's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 13893053-n[24].
  • geodesic curve's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C165818556[25].
  • geodesic curve's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2988735580[26].

Why It Matters

geodesic curve ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (629 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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