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  • 1Diophantine approximation — In number theory, the field of Diophantine approximation, named after Diophantus of Alexandria, deals with the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers. The absolute value of the difference between the real number to be approximated and… …

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  • 2High frequency approximation — A high frequency approximation (or high energy approximation ) for scattering or other wave propagation problems, in physics or engineering, is an approximation whose accuracy increases with the size of features on the scatterer or medium… …

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  • 3Local-density approximation — The local density approximation (LDA) is an approximation of the exchange correlation (XC) energy functional in density functional theory (DFT) by taking the XC energy of an electron in a homogeneous electron gas of a density equal to the density …

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  • 4Non-uniform rational B-spline — Three dimensional NURBS surfaces can have complex, organic shapes. Control points influence the directions the surface takes. The outermost square below delineates the X/Y extents of the surface …

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  • 5Modulus of continuity — In mathematical analysis, a modulus of continuity is a function used to measure quantitatively the uniform continuity of functions. So, a function admits ω as a modulus of continuity if and only if for all x and y in the domain of f. Since moduli …

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  • 6Trigonometric functions — Cosine redirects here. For the similarity measure, see Cosine similarity. Trigonometry History Usage Functions Generalized Inverse functions …

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  • 7Singular perturbation — In mathematics, more precisely in perturbation theory, a singular perturbation problem is a problem containing a small parameter that cannot be approximated by setting the parameter value to zero. This is in contrast to regular perturbation… …

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  • 8Generating trigonometric tables — In mathematics, tables of trigonometric functions are useful in a number of areas. Before the existence of pocket calculators, trigonometric tables were essential for navigation, science and engineering. The calculation of mathematical tables was …

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  • 9Henry Landau — Henry Jacob Landau is an American mathematician, known forhis contributions to information theory, in particular to the theory of bandlimited functions and on moment (mathematics) issuesHe received a A.B. (1953), A.M. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) from …

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  • 10Hermite polynomials — In mathematics, the Hermite polynomials are a classical orthogonal polynomial sequence that arise in probability, such as the Edgeworth series; in combinatorics, as an example of an Appell sequence, obeying the umbral calculus; in numerical… …

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