distance

sepdek October 8, 2016

The thing starts with invariance, conservation and symmetry… Invariant is something that is unchanged by a coordinate transformation. Conserved is something that is unchanged by a process within a given coordinate system. Symmetry could be considered a broader property of some ‘universe’ in which some entity of interest remains the same under a specific operation. […]

sepdek October 8, 2016

In order to be a measure (distance) d must:   In order to be a metric (distance) d has to be a measure and:   …and here is the cheat sheet: