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  • 41Fair division — Cake cutting redirects here. For the wedding tradition, see Wedding reception#Wedding cake. Fair division, also known as the cake cutting problem, is the problem of dividing a resource in such a way that all recipients believe that they have… …

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  • 42List of theorems — This is a list of theorems, by Wikipedia page. See also *list of fundamental theorems *list of lemmas *list of conjectures *list of inequalities *list of mathematical proofs *list of misnamed theorems *Existence theorem *Classification of finite… …

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  • 43List of mathematical proofs — A list of articles with mathematical proofs:Theorems of which articles are primarily devoted to proving them: See also: *Bertrand s postulate and a proof *Estimation of covariance matrices *Fermat s little theorem and some proofs *Gödel s… …

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  • 44Timeline of calculus and mathematical analysis — A timeline of calculus and mathematical analysis 1000 to 1500 * 1020 Abul Wáfa Discussed the quadrature of the parabola and the volume of the paraboloid. * 1021 Ibn al Haytham completes his Book of Optics , which formulated and solved “Alhazen s… …

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  • 45Maxima and minima — For other uses, see Maxima (disambiguation) and Maximum (disambiguation). For use in statistics, see Maximum (statistics). Local and global maxima and minima for cos(3πx)/x, 0.1≤x≤1.1 In mathematics, the maximum and minimum (plural: maxima and… …

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  • 46Sperner's lemma — You may be looking for Sperner s theorem on set families In mathematics, Sperner s lemma is a combinatorial analog of the Brouwer fixed point theorem. Sperner s lemma states that every Sperner coloring of a triangulation of an n dimensional… …

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  • 47Darboux function — In mathematics, a Darboux function, named for Gaston Darboux (1842 1917), is a real valued function f which has the intermediate value property : on the interval between a and b , f assumes every real value between f ( a ) and f ( b ). Formally,… …

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  • 48Newton's method — In numerical analysis, Newton s method (also known as the Newton–Raphson method), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real valued function. The… …

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  • 49Bernard Bolzano — Bernard (Bernhard) Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (birth date|1781|10|5|mf=y ndash; December 18, 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, theologian, philosopher, logician and antimilitarist of German mother tongue.FamilyBolzano was the son of two… …

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  • 50Reverse mathematics — is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. The method can briefly be described as going backwards from the theorems to the axioms. This contrasts with the ordinary… …

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