Blowing up
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title:
Blowing up
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In mathematics, blowing up or blowup is a type of geometric transformation which replaces a subspace of a given space with the space of all directions pointing out of that subspace. For example, the blowup of a point in a plane replaces the point with the projectivized tangent space at that point. The metaphor is that of zooming in on a photograph to enlarge part of the picture, rather than referring to an explosion. Blowups are the most fundamental transformation in birational geometry, because
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_up
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2005-04-30T00:12:05Z
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2024-09-14T02:22:37Z
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