• In mathematics, a hierarchy is a set-theoretical object, consisting of a preorder defined on a set. This is often referred to as an ordered set, though...
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    In mathematical logic, the arithmetical hierarchy, arithmetic hierarchy or Kleene–Mostowski hierarchy (after mathematicians Stephen Cole Kleene and Andrzej...
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    as" one another. Hierarchy is an important concept in a wide variety of fields, such as architecture, philosophy, design, mathematics, computer science...
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  • arithmetical hierarchy and analytical hierarchy from mathematical logic. The union of the classes in the hierarchy is denoted PH. Classes within the hierarchy have...
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  • parent level. Hierarchies are typically depicted as a tree structures. Hierarchy may also refer to: Hierarchy (mathematics), the mathematical model of a...
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  • In mathematical logic and descriptive set theory, the analytical hierarchy is an extension of the arithmetical hierarchy. The analytical hierarchy of...
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    In the theory of decision making, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), also analytical hierarchy process, is a structured technique for organizing and...
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    Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a conceptualisation of the needs (or goals) that motivate human behaviour, which was proposed by the American psychologist...
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  • In set theory and mathematical logic, the Lévy hierarchy, introduced by Azriel Lévy in 1965, is a hierarchy of formulas in the formal language of the...
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  • within mathematics, Wadge degrees are levels of complexity for sets of reals. Sets are compared by continuous reductions. The Wadge hierarchy is the structure...
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  • In mathematical logic, the Borel hierarchy is a stratification of the Borel algebra generated by the open subsets of a Polish space; elements of this...
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  • In set theory and related branches of mathematics, the von Neumann universe, or von Neumann hierarchy of sets, denoted by V, is the class of hereditary...
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  • In the mathematical field of descriptive set theory, a pointclass is a collection of sets of points, where a point is ordinarily understood to be an element...
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  • theory, the exponential hierarchy is a hierarchy of complexity classes that is an exponential time analogue of the polynomial hierarchy. As elsewhere in complexity...
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    essentially all mathematical concepts can be modeled by pure sets. Sets in the von Neumann universe are organized into a cumulative hierarchy, based on how...
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    Containment hierarchy is used in class inheritance of object-oriented programming. Hereditarily countable set Hereditary property Hierarchy (mathematics) Nested...
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  • effective Polish space. Borel hierarchy J. Steel, "What is... a Woodin cardinal?". Notices of the American Mathematical Society vol. 54, no. 9 (2007)...
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  • proof theory, a fast-growing hierarchy (also called an extended Grzegorczyk hierarchy, or a Schwichtenberg-Wainer hierarchy) is an ordinal-indexed family...
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  • boolean hierarchy is the hierarchy of boolean combinations (intersection, union and complementation) of NP sets. Equivalently, the boolean hierarchy can be...
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    attended the Gateway High School. Graham gained an interest in science and mathematics via his father who was a nuclear physicist. Graham received a Bachelor...
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    into a hierarchy based on their level of noncomputability? Although there is considerable overlap in terms of knowledge and methods, mathematical computability...
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  • others. Abstract algebra Algebraic logic Abstract model theory Hierarchy (mathematics) Model theory Variety (universal algebra) Universal logic Font,...
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  • In theoretical computer science and mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with what problems can be solved on a model of computation...
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  • Peano Mathematical induction Structural induction Recursive definition Naive set theory Element (mathematics) Ur-element Singleton (mathematics) Simple...
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  • In mathematics, specifically set theory, a cumulative hierarchy is a family of sets W α {\displaystyle W_{\alpha }} indexed by ordinals α {\displaystyle...
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    The Chomsky hierarchy in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars...
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  • the broadest areas of mathematics, see Mathematics § Areas of mathematics. The Mathematics Subject Classification is a hierarchical list of areas and subjects...
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  • In mathematics, the KdV hierarchy is an infinite sequence of partial differential equations which contains the Korteweg–de Vries equation. Let T {\displaystyle...
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    distributive property implies this as a natural hierarchy. As recently as the 1920s, the historian of mathematics Florian Cajori identifies disagreement about...
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  • formulas is measured using the arithmetical hierarchy and analytical hierarchy. The reason that reverse mathematics is not carried out using set theory as...
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