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called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", it has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus. The former concerns...

Multivariable calculus (also known as multivariate calculus) is the extension of calculus in one variable to calculus with functions of several variables:...

Lambda calculus (also written as λ-calculus) is a formal system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application...

There are three branches of decision theory: Normative decision theory: Concerned with the identification of optimal decisions, where optimality is often...

Look up calculus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Calculus (from Latin calculus meaning ‘pebble’, plural calculī) in its most general sense is any method...

The term vector calculus is sometimes used as a synonym for the broader subject of multivariable calculus, which spans vector calculus as well as partial...

In the history of calculus, the calculus controversy (German: Prioritätsstreit, lit. 'priority dispute') was an argument between the mathematicians Isaac...

mathematics excludes topics in "continuous mathematics" such as real numbers, calculus or Euclidean geometry. Discrete objects can often be enumerated by integers;...

including such features as participation rate. A calculus of voting represents a hypothesized decision-making process. These models are used in political...

Stochastic calculus is a branch of mathematics that operates on stochastic processes. It allows a consistent theory of integration to be defined for integrals...

a Turing machine (or equivalently, by those expressible in the lambda calculus). This assumption is now known as the Church–Turing thesis. The origin...

The propositional calculus is a branch of logic. It is also called propositional logic, statement logic, sentential calculus, sentential logic, or sometimes...

Ofer (23 May 2008). Decision procedures. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-74104-6. Bradley, Aaron; Manna, Zohar (3 September 2007). The calculus of computation. Springer...

a weapons program. A final section, "The Indian Decision," tries to assess India's decision calculus and notes that India might try to represent any underground...

typed lambda calculus ( λ → {\displaystyle \lambda ^{\to }} ), a form of type theory, is a typed interpretation of the lambda calculus with only one...

Analysis (Math 55b). Previously, the official title was Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra. In the past, Harvard University's Department of Mathematics...

First-order logic—also called predicate logic, predicate calculus, quantificational logic—is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy...

The Calculus Affair (French: L'Affaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé...

1287/opre.9.3.383. JSTOR 167570. Models and Managers: The Concept of a Decision Calculus, in Management Science: A Journal of the Institute for Operations...

context of real and complex numbers and functions. Analysis evolved from calculus, which involves the elementary concepts and techniques of analysis. Analysis...