| has gloss | eng: In mathematics, a twisted cubic is a smooth, rational curve C of degree three in projective 3-space \mathbbP}^3. It is a fundamental example of a skew curve. It is essentially unique, up to projective transformation (the twisted cubic, therefore). It is generally considered to be the simplest example of a projective variety that isn't linear or a hypersurface, and is given as such in most textbooks on algebraic geometry. It is the three-dimensional case of the rational normal curve, and is the image of a Veronese map of degree three on the projective line. |
