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(mathematics, number theory) A branch of number theory in which suitable ideas and techniques from analytic number theory are generalised and applied to a variety of mathematical fields.
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Synonym of computational number theory.
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(mathematics, number theory) A branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve problems about the integers.
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The mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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(mathematics) A field of mathematics in the intersection of number theory, combinatorics, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis.
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A form of numerology that equates letters or words with numbers.
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(mathematics) Any of several methods for describing and analyzing the behaviour of a system at its limits
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(set theory) The axiom that the power set of any set exists and is a valid set, which appears in the standard axiomatisation of set theory, ZFC.
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(mathematics, uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
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(mathematics) causal set
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(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
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(mathematics) a branch of mathematics that studies (usually finite) collections of objects that satisfy specified criteria
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(set theory) A set that is countable.
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(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
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(set theory) Having the properties of a directed set.
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(arithmetic) The result of multiplying no numbers, conventionally defined to equal one.
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(number theory) An abundant number.
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(mathematics) Related to finitism
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(mathematics, economics) Of, relating to, or defined in terms of game theory.
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(mathematics) In the sense of graph theory
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(mathematics, chiefly dated) Number theory; the branch of pure mathematics concerned primarily with integers and integer-valued functions.
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(mathematics) Any power series such that the ratio of the (k+1)-th and the k-th terms is a rational function of the natural integer k.
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(uncountable, Canada, US, Philippines) Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math).
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(mathematics) Any game featuring arithmetic or other branches of mathematics; a branch of recreational mathematics
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(set theory) An element of a set.
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(mathematics) For a given number n, the number of different ways of drawing non-intersecting chords between n points on a circle (not necessarily touching every point by a chord). They have diverse applications in geometry, combinatorics, and number theory.
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(mathematics, computer science) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
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Alternative form of new math [(US, education, historical) A dramatic and short-lived change in the teaching of mathematics in grade schools in the 1960s, focusing on abstract topics such as symbolic logic, to the detriment of simple arithmetic etc.]
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(obsolete, derogatory) One who believed in the mathematical theory of infinite divisibility, and hence dealt with immeasurably small quantities.
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(mathematics) Of an element of a partially ordered ring, either positive or zero; not negative; greater than or equal to zero.
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(computing theory) A problem H is NP-hard if and only if there is an NP-complete problem L that is polynomial time Turing-reducible to H.
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(mathematics) Of the null set.
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(mathematics) A mathematician who specializes in number theory
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(mathematics) The branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers.
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(mathematics) Of or relating to number theory.
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(mathematics) By means of, or in terms of, number theory.
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(mathematics) Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio.
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(mathematics) The study of algorithms to solve mathematical problems concerning continuous sets of values (such as the real numbers, complex numbers or vector spaces).
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(mathematics) A branch of functional analysis, being the study of linear operators on function spaces.
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(set theory) An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or ⟨a,b⟩.
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(computing theory) Describing any problem in the complexity class P to which there exists a polynomial time mapping from any other problem in P.
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(set theory, order theory, loosely) A set that has a given, elsewhere specified partial order.
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A mathematical formalism for describing knowledge of the world in terms of patterns that can be studied using statistical methods.
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(set theory, order theory) A partially ordered set.
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(computing theory) The operator 𝜌, that creates a new function from two functions g, and h, such that:
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(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
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(set theory) a set that is a subset of the set, but not equal to it.
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(mathematics) The study of the behaviour of queues, and of stochastic processes modelled on them.
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(mathematics) Having a basis in ranges
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(mathematics) Any use of mathematics or logic whose primary purpose is recreation, though often with more serious characteristics.
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(set theory) An axiomatic set theory, developed by logician George Boolos, in which several of the axioms of ZF are derivable as theorems.
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(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
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(in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
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(set theory) A mathematical operation that returns a set taking one or more sets as input.
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(mathematics) In the sense of set theory
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(mathematics) Of, relating to or using set theory.
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(set theory, of two sets A and B) The set that contains exactly those elements belonging to A but not to B; the relative complement of B in A.
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(mathematics) Any function in which each point in the domain maps to just one point in the range
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(set theory, order theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
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(set theory) (symbol: ⊇) With respect to another set, a set such that each of the elements of the other set is also an element of the set.
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(set theory, order theory) That is equipped with a total order, that is a subset of (the ground set of) a partially ordered set whose partial order is a total order with respect to said subset.
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(set theory) A set having a specified total order.
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(set theory) Any set X such that for any x ∈ X, if y ∈ x then y ∈ X; equivalently, such that if x ∈ X and x is not an urelement then x ⊆ X.
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(mathematics, logic) A set of all true values
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(set theory) A set large enough to contain all sets under consideration in the current context.
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(set theory) A diagram representing some sets by contours of closed shapes, such as circles or ellipses (and sometimes also the universal set as a rectangle enclosing all of these shapes), and indicating the relationships between the sets: by overlapping the shapes to show that the corresponding sets have a non-empty intersection, and by possibly (but not necessarily) enclosing all of the sets (which are proper subsets of the universal set) within a universal set (represented typically by a rectangle); such that the total number of simply connected regions is 2ⁿ, where n is the number of depicted sets which are proper subsets of the universal set.
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(set theory, order theory) A total order of some set such that every nonempty subset contains a least element.
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(set theory) An early and influential axiomatisation of set theory.
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(mathematics) An axiomatic system that was proposed in the early 20th century in order to formulate a theory of sets free from paradoxes such as Russell's paradox, and became the standard form of axiomatic set theory.
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(set theory) Initialism of Zermelo-Fraenkel (set theory): a particular axiomatic formulation of set theory without the axiom of choice.
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