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Analytic geometry in three dimensions makes essential use of coordinate systems. To introduce a coordinate system, we consider triples (a,b, c) of real numbers, and we call the set of all such triples of real numbers the three-dimensional number space. We denote this space by R’. Each individual triple is a point in R 3 . The three elements in each number triple are called its coordinates. We now show how three-dimensional number space may be represented on a geometric or Euclidean three-dimensional space.
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Protter, M.H., Morrey, C.B. (1985). Analytic Geometry in Three Dimensions. In: Intermediate Calculus. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1086-3_1
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