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<p>changes from plus to minus or from minus to plus, i.e., changes <a href="page.php?w=sign_%28mathematics%29">sign</a>.</p>

<p>For a smooth curve which is a graph of a twice differentiable function, an inflection point is a point on the graph at which the <a href="page.php?w=second_derivative">second derivative</a> has an isolated zero and changes sign.</p>

<p>In <a href="page.php?w=algebraic_geometry">algebraic geometry</a>, a non singular point of an <a href="page.php?w=algebraic_curve">algebraic curve</a> is an inflection point if and only</p><p>
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