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  • 71Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato — Ian Mueller INTRODUCTION: PROCLUS’ HISTORY OF GEOMETRY In a famous passage in Book VII of the Republic starting at Socrates proposes to inquire about the studies (mathēmata) needed to train the young people who will become leaders of the ideal… …

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  • 72Paradoxes of set theory — This article contains a discussion of paradoxes of set theory. As with most mathematical paradoxes, they generally reveal surprising and counter intuitive mathematical results, rather than actual logical contradictions within modern axiomatic set …

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  • 73Dedekind–MacNeille completion — The Hasse diagram of a partially ordered set (left) and its Dedekind–MacNeille completion (right). In order theoretic mathematics, the Dedekind–MacNeille completion of a partially ordered set (also called the completion by cuts or normal… …

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  • 74Quantum logic — In mathematical physics and quantum mechanics, quantum logic is a set of rules for reasoning about propositions which takes the principles of quantum theory into account. This research area and its name originated in the 1936 paper by Garrett… …

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  • 75Ultrafilter — In the mathematical field of set theory, an ultrafilter on a set X is a collection of subsets of X that is a filter, that cannot be enlarged (as a filter). An ultrafilter may be considered as a finitely additive measure. Then every subset of X is …

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  • 76Structural induction — is a proof method that is used in mathematical logic (e.g., the proof of Łoś theorem), computer science, graph theory, and some other mathematical fields. It is a generalization of mathematical induction. Structural recursion is a recursion… …

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  • 77List of philosophy topics (R-Z) — RRaRabad Rabbinic law Rabbinic theology Francois Rabelais François Rabelais race racetrack paradox racism Gustav Radbruch Janet Radcliffe Richards Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan radical Aristotelianism radical behaviourism radical feminism radical… …

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  • 78Constructible universe — Gödel universe redirects here. For Kurt Gödel s cosmological solution to the Einstein field equations, see Gödel metric. In mathematics, the constructible universe (or Gödel s constructible universe), denoted L, is a particular class of sets… …

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  • 79Denotational semantics of the Actor model — The denotational semantics of the Actor model is the subject of denotational domain theory for Actors. The historical development of this subject is recounted in [Hewitt 2008b]. Contents 1 Actor fixed point semantics 2 Compositionality in… …

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  • 80Issues affecting the Single Transferable Vote — Main article: Single Transferable Vote There are a number of complications and issues surrounding the application and use of the Single Transferable Vote that form the basis of discussions between its advocates and detractors. Contents 1… …

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