• Cobham's theorem is a theorem in combinatorics on words that has important connections with number theory, notably transcendental numbers, and automata...
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  • solutions are characterized by having polynomial time,[B] and for Cobham's theorem on the sets of numbers that can be recognized by finite automata.[C]...
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  • obtainable in this way. This result is due to Cobham, and it is referred to in the literature as Cobham's little theorem. Let k ≥ 2. The k-kernel of the sequence...
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  • Cobham's thesis, also known as Cobham–Edmonds thesis (named after Alan Cobham and Jack Edmonds), asserts that computational problems can be feasibly computed...
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  • the time hierarchy theorems are important statements about time-bounded computation on Turing machines. Informally, these theorems say that given more...
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  • (2006). "A generalization of Cobham's theorem for regular sequences". Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire. 54A. Cobham, A. (1969). "On the base-dependence...
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  • mathematical queueing theory, Little's law (also result, theorem, lemma, or formula) is a theorem by John Little which states that the long-term average...
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    mathematics, he proved the matroid intersection theorem, a very general combinatorial min-max theorem which, in modern terms, showed that the matroid...
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  • Recognizability of Sets of Natural Numbers by Automata: New Proofs of Cobham's and Semenov's Theorems". Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 77 (3): 251–277. doi:10...
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  • machine using a polynomial amount of computation time, or polynomial time. Cobham's thesis holds that P is the class of computational problems that are "efficiently...
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  • size. Just as the class P can be thought of as the tractable problems (Cobham's thesis), so NC can be thought of as the problems that can be efficiently...
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    The concept of NP-completeness was introduced in 1971 (see Cook–Levin theorem), though the term NP-complete was introduced later. At the 1971 STOC conference...
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  • {\displaystyle n} , then the algorithm is said to be a polynomial time algorithm. Cobham's thesis argues that a problem can be solved with a feasible amount of resources...
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  • means "easy" and "not in P" means "difficult", an assumption known as Cobham's thesis. It is a common assumption in complexity theory; but there are caveats...
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    class P, which is central in the field of computational complexity theory. Cobham's thesis states that polynomial time is a synonym for "tractable", "feasible"...
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    mathematical analysis. Taylor's most famous developments are Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, essential in the infinitesimal approach of functions...
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  • symbols for all polynomial-time algorithms introduced inductively using Cobham's characterization of polynomial-time functions. Axioms and derivations of...
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  • the Cobham–Semënov theorem, if a relation is definable in both k and l Büchi arithmetics, then it is definable in Presburger arithmetic. Cobham, Alan...
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  • Undecidable theories. North Holland. Vaught, Robert L. (1966). "On a Theorem of Cobham Concerning Undecidable Theories". Studies in Logic and the Foundations...
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  • contains no block of three consecutive 1s. More succinctly, by Cobham's little theorem the Baum–Sweet word can be expressed as a coding τ {\displaystyle...
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  • is gone.[clarification needed] Its meaning was translated in 1898 by E. Cobham Brewer in the forms "When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care"...
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  • Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation 2015 Cédric Villani Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure 2015 Medicine Albert Schweitzer Out of My Life...
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    mathematics, Thales is the namesake of Thales's theorem, and the intercept theorem can also be known as Thales's theorem. Thales was said to have calculated the...
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  • introduced in the notion of self-definability to derive a proof of the Cobham-Semenov theorem. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001. Subsequently, he worked at the Institute...
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    time-translation symmetry.[citation needed] That is according to Noether's theorem relating symmetries and conserved quantity, energy is conserved because...
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  • Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician – Abelian group, Abel's theorem, Abel–Ruffini theorem Helmut Abt, German-born American astrophysicist - Abt's star...
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    perturbation Group velocity Hanle effect Helmholtz minimum dissipation theorem Laminar–turbulent transition Langmuir–Blodgett trough List of presidents...
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  • unavoidable patterns, or regularities, was Frank Ramsey in 1930. His important theorem states that for integers k {\displaystyle k} , m ≥ 2 {\displaystyle m\geq...
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    Braun (2004). An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics: A Guide To Laws And Theorems Named After Economists. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-84542-360-5...
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    for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory St Ivo of Kermartin (died 1303), patron of lawyers Étienne...
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