mathematical abstraction

  • 1Abstraction (mathematics) — Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalising it so that it has wider… …

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  • 2Abstraction (disambiguation) — Abstraction may refer to one of the following: * Abstraction, the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects * Abstraction (computer science), a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on few… …

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  • 3Abstraction (computer science) — In computer science, abstraction is the process by which data and programs are defined with a representation similar to its pictorial meaning as rooted in the more complex realm of human life and language with their higher need of summarization… …

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  • 4Abstraction — This article is about the concept of abstraction in general. For other uses, see abstraction (disambiguation). Abstraction is a process by which higher concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal ( real or concrete )… …

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  • 5Mathematical object — In mathematics and the philosophy of mathematics, a mathematical object is an abstract object arising in mathematics. Commonly encountered mathematical objects include numbers, permutations, partitions, matrices, sets, functions, and relations.… …

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  • 6Mathematical problem — A mathematical problem is a problem that is amenable to being represented, analyzed, and possibly solved, with the methods of mathematics. This can be a real world problem, such as computing the orbits of the planets in the solar system, or a… …

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  • 7List of disproved mathematical ideas — In mathematics, ideas are supposedly not accepted as fact until they have been rigorously proved. However, there have been some ideas that were fairly accepted in the past but which were subsequently showed to be false. This article is meant to… …

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  • 8List of mathematical jargon — The language of mathematics has a vast vocabulary of specialist and technical terms. It also has a certain amount of jargon: commonly used phrases which are part of the culture of mathematics, rather than of the subject. Jargon often appears in… …

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  • 9Judgment (mathematical logic) — In mathematical logic, a judgment can be for example an assertion about occurrence of a free variable in an expression of the object language, or about provability of a proposition (either as a tautology or from a given context); but judgments… …

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  • 10Metalinguistic abstraction — In computer science, metalinguistic abstraction is the process of solving complex problems by creating a new language or vocabulary to better understand the problem space. It is a recurring theme in the seminal MIT textbook, the Structure and… …

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