• Algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies certain abstract systems, known as algebraic structures, and the manipulation of statements within those...
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  • mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra. It differs from elementary algebra in two ways. First, the values of the variables...
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  • branches like algebraic number theory and algebraic topology. The word algebra itself has several meanings. Algebraic may also refer to: Algebraic data type...
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    In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures, which are sets with specific operations...
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    Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as: a 1 x 1 + ⋯ + a n x n = b , {\displaystyle a_{1}x_{1}+\cdots +a_{n}x_{n}=b...
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  • mathematics, and more specifically in abstract algebra, a *-algebra (or involutive algebra; read as "star-algebra") is a mathematical structure consisting of...
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    In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced /liː/ LEE) is a vector space g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} together with an operation called the Lie bracket...
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  • mathematics, an algebra over a field (often simply called an algebra) is a vector space equipped with a bilinear product. Thus, an algebra is an algebraic structure...
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    In mathematics, the exterior algebra or Grassmann algebra of a vector space V {\displaystyle V} is an associative algebra that contains V , {\displaystyle...
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  • In mathematical analysis and in probability theory, a σ-algebra ("sigma algebra"; also σ-field, where the σ comes from the German "Summe") on a set X...
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  • mathematics, specifically in functional analysis, a C∗-algebra (pronounced "C-star") is a Banach algebra together with an involution satisfying the properties...
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    Algebraic notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely...
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  • In mathematics, an associative algebra A over a commutative ring (often a field) K is a ring A together with a ring homomorphism from K into the center...
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  • mathematics, a Clifford algebra is an algebra generated by a vector space with a quadratic form, and is a unital associative algebra with the additional structure...
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  • universal algebra, an algebraic structure is called an algebra; this term may be ambiguous, since, in other contexts, an algebra is an algebraic structure...
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  • Algebra can essentially be considered as doing computations similar to those of arithmetic but with non-numerical mathematical objects. However, until...
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  • In database theory, relational algebra is a theory that uses algebraic structures for modeling data and defining queries on it with well founded semantics...
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  • Universal algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures themselves, not examples ("models")...
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  • geometric algebra (also known as a Clifford algebra) is an algebra that can represent and manipulate geometrical objects such as vectors. Geometric algebra is...
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  • The fundamental theorem of algebra, also called d'Alembert's theorem or the d'Alembert–Gauss theorem, states that every non-constant single-variable polynomial...
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    In mathematics and computer science, computer algebra, also called symbolic computation or algebraic computation, is a scientific area that refers to the...
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    circle. Its Lie algebra is (more or less) the Witt algebra, whose central extension the Virasoro algebra (see Virasoro algebra from Witt algebra for a derivation...
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    equation), he has been described as the father or founder of algebra. The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise...
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  • In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, an operator algebra is an algebra of continuous linear operators on a topological vector space, with...
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  • In mathematics, a von Neumann algebra or W*-algebra is a *-algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology...
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  • In mathematics, rings are algebraic structures that generalize fields: multiplication need not be commutative and multiplicative inverses need not exist...
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  • Borel sets on X forms a σ-algebra, known as the Borel algebra or Borel σ-algebra. The Borel algebra on X is the smallest σ-algebra containing all open sets...
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  • mathematics, an algebraic expression is an expression built up from constants (usually, algebraic numbers) variables, and the basic algebraic operations:...
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    and real numbers. A field is thus a fundamental algebraic structure which is widely used in algebra, number theory, and many other areas of mathematics...
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  • In universal algebra, an abstract algebra A is called simple if and only if it has no nontrivial congruence relations, or equivalently, if every homomorphism...
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