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111Areas of mathematics — Mathematics has become a vastly diverse subject over history, and there is a corresponding need to categorize the different areas of mathematics. A number of different classification schemes have arisen, and though they share some similarities,… …
112Roman letters used in mathematics — NOTOC Many Roman letters, both capital and small, are used in mathematics, science and engineering to denote by convention specific or abstracted constants, variables of a certain type, units, multipliers, physical entities. Certain letters, when …
113The Professor's Beloved Equation — is a novel by Yoko Ogawa set in modern day Japan. It was published in August, 2003, by Shinchosha and was the first recipient of the Hon ya Taisho award.The story centers around a mathematician, the professor, who suffered brain damage in a… …
114Halting problem — In computability theory, the halting problem can be stated as follows: Given a description of a computer program, decide whether the program finishes running or continues to run forever. This is equivalent to the problem of deciding, given a… …
115Edward Burger — Infobox Scientist name = Edward B. Burger image size = caption = birth date = birth place = residence = Williamstown, Massachusetts citizenship = United States nationality = ethnicity = fields = Mathematics Algebraic number theory Diophantine… …
116geometry — /jee om i tree/, n. 1. the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties… …
117Carl Størmer — Infobox Scientist name = PAGENAME box width = image width =150px caption = PAGENAME birth date = September 3, 1874 birth place = Skien death date = August 13, 1957 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = Norwegian ethnicity = field …
118Pi — (p[imac]), n. [Gr. pi^.] 1. A Greek letter ([Pi], [pi]) corresponding to the Roman letter {P}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. Specifically: (Math.) The letter [pi], [Pi], as used to denote the number or quotient approximately expressing the ratio of… …
119Irreducible polynomial — In mathematics, the adjective irreducible means that an object cannot be expressed as a product of at least two non trivial factors in a given set. See also factorization. For any field F , the ring of polynomials with coefficients in F is… …
120Joseph Liouville — Infobox Scientist name =Joseph Liouville box width = image width =150px caption =Joseph Liouville birth date = March 24 1809 birth place = death date = September 8 1882 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = French ethnicity =… …
