Mathematics
- Orientation (computer vision), an image processing concept related to one-dimensional characterization of a local image
- Orientation (geometry), placement of an object in a rotational coordinate system with respect to a fixed point and a reference position
- Orientation (graph theory), an assignment of a direction to each edge of an undirected graph
- Orientation (vector space), a concept in linear algebra
- Curve orientation, a property of a planar simple closed curve
- Orientability, a property of surfaces in Euclidean space measuring whether or not it is possible to make a consistent choice of surface normal vector at every point
- Orientation character, group homomorphism in surgery theory
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Famous quotes containing the word mathematics:
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)