The Riemann Sphere is a mathematical model that represents the extended complex plane, where every point on the complex plane corresponds to a point on the sphere, with the point at infinity being the north pole. This construction allows for a more comprehensive understanding of complex functions, particularly in the context of complex analysis and stereographic projection.

Riemann Sphere

A mathematical model is a representation of a system using mathematical concepts and language, enabling analysis, prediction, and understanding of complex phenomena. These models are crucial in fields such as physics, economics, and engineering, where they help simulate real-world processes and guide decision-making.

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The extended complex plane, also known as the Riemann sphere, is a compactification of the complex plane by adding a point at infinity, allowing for a unified treatment of infinity in complex analysis. This extension facilitates a more comprehensive understanding of meromorphic functions and the behavior of complex functions at infinity.

extended complex plane

The complex plane is a two-dimensional plane used to represent complex numbers, where the horizontal axis represents the real part and the vertical axis represents the imaginary part. This visualization allows for a geometric interpretation of complex number operations, such as addition, multiplication, and finding magnitudes and angles.

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point on the sphere

point at infinity

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comprehensive understanding

Complex functions are mappings from the complex plane to itself, characterized by their ability to encapsulate both magnitude and direction through complex numbers. They exhibit unique properties such as holomorphicity, which allows them to be differentiable in a complex sense, and are central to fields like complex analysis and theoretical physics.

complex functions

Complex analysis is a branch of mathematics that studies functions of complex numbers and their properties, such as differentiability and integrability, which often lead to elegant and powerful results not seen in real analysis. It plays a crucial role in various fields, including engineering, physics, and number theory, due to its ability to simplify problems and provide deep insights into the nature of mathematical structures.

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Stereographic projection is a method of mapping points from a sphere onto a plane, preserving angles and thereby conformality, but not distances or areas. It is widely used in cartography, complex analysis, and crystallography for visualizing spherical data and structures in a two-dimensional format.

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