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* [http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/comm/cteach/pamphlets/22/index.html Matrices, Mappings and Crystallographic Symmetry], teaching pamphlet No. 22 of the [[International Union of Crystallography]] | * [http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/comm/cteach/pamphlets/22/index.html Matrices, Mappings and Crystallographic Symmetry], teaching pamphlet No. 22 of the [[International Union of Crystallography]] | ||
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A mathematical model of the space in which we live is the point space. Its elements are points. Objects in point space may be single points; finite sets of points like the centres of the atoms of a molecule; infinite discontinuous point sets like the centres of the atoms of an ideal crystal pattern; continuous point sets like straight lines, curves, planes, curved surfaces, etc.
Objects in point space are described by means of a coordinate system referred to point chosen as the origin O. An arbitrary point P is then described by its coordinates x, y, z.
The point space used in crystallography is a Euclidean space, i.e. an affine space where the scalar product is defined.
Crystal structures are described in point space. The vector space is a dual of the point space because to each pair of points in point space a vector in vector space can be associated.
See also
- Matrices, Mappings and Crystallographic Symmetry, teaching pamphlet No. 22 of the International Union of Crystallography