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In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number...

Look up trapezoid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In geometry, a trapezoid (/ˈtræpəzɔɪd/) in North American English, or trapezium (/trəˈpiːziəm/) in...

RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the...

The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern...

In ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data. The type of average taken as most typically representative...

A googolplex is the large number 10googol, or equivalently, 1010100 or 1010,000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000...

Minmax (sometimes Minimax, MM or saddle point) is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy...

In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes zero or more input values (also called "operands" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value...

In differential calculus, there is no single uniform notation for differentiation. Instead, various notations for the derivative of a function or variable...

In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram (or Coxeter diagram, Coxeter graph) is a graph with numerically labeled edges (called branches) representing a Coxeter...

Algebra can essentially be considered as doing computations similar to those of arithmetic but with non-numerical mathematical objects. However, until...

A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people)...

Brahmagupta (c. 598 – c. 668 CE) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He is the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta...

Approximations for the mathematical constant pi (π) in the history of mathematics reached an accuracy within 0.04% of the true value before the beginning...

Mathematics emerged independently in China by the 11th century BCE. The Chinese independently developed a real number system that includes significantly...

In number theory, a Carmichael number is a composite number n {\displaystyle n} which in modular arithmetic satisfies the congruence relation: b n ≡ b...

In mathematics, transfinite numbers or infinite numbers are numbers that are "infinite" in the sense that they are larger than all finite numbers. These...

A multiplication algorithm is an algorithm (or method) to multiply two numbers. Depending on the size of the numbers, different algorithms are more efficient...

Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS (French: [adamaʁ]; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number...