• Effect algebras are partial algebras which abstract the (partial) algebraic properties of events that can be observed in quantum mechanics. Structures...
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    Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to identify...
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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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  • operation effect algebras There is a "Meta Birkhoff Theorem" by Andreka, Nemeti and Sain (1982). Peter Burmeister (1993). "Partial algebras—an introductory...
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  • memory region in which the cell resides). The term "algebraic effect" follows from the type system. Effect systems may be used to prove the external purity...
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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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  • In abstract algebra, a branch of pure mathematics, an MV-algebra is an algebraic structure with a binary operation ⊕ {\displaystyle \oplus } , a unary...
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    Homological algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies homology in a general algebraic setting. It is a relatively young discipline, whose origins...
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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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  • Conformal geometric algebra (CGA) is the geometric algebra constructed over the resultant space of a map from points in an n-dimensional base space Rp...
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    application. The concept of idempotence arises in a number of places in abstract algebra (in particular, in the theory of projectors and closure operators) and...
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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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    termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring, rotating...
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  • 3, 2018) was an American mathematician known for his research on the algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics. He spent much of his career at the University...
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  • In linear algebra, linear transformations can be represented by matrices. If T {\displaystyle T} is a linear transformation mapping R n {\displaystyle...
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  • a consequence, a product of two negative numbers is positive. For an algebraic proof of this result, start with the equation 0 = −1 ⋅ 0 = −1 ⋅ [1 + (−1)]...
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    Quaternion (category Composition algebras)
    division algebra over the real numbers, and therefore a ring, also a division ring and a domain. It is a special case of a Clifford algebra, classified...
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  • polynomial algebras are used for the study of algebraic varieties, which are solution sets of systems of polynomial equations. Weyl algebras and Lie algebras may...
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  • composition algebras frequently applied in mathematical physics. The Cayley–Dickson construction defines a new algebra as a Cartesian product of an algebra with...
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  • which map states to probabilities and are usually described by an effect algebra; a set of possible physical operations, i.e., transformations that map...
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  • enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra is the unital associative algebra whose representations correspond precisely to the representations of that Lie algebra. Universal...
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    boundary of no escape is called the event horizon. A black hole has a great effect on the fate and circumstances of an object crossing it, but has no locally...
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    In electromagnetism, skin effect is the tendency of an alternating electric current (AC) to become distributed within a conductor such that the current...
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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, MOS FET, or MOS transistor) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly...
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    abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures...
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  • apart from the elementary symbolic algebra: Expectation algebra, Variance algebra, Covariance algebra, Moment algebra, etc. Considering two random variables...
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    groups, Lie algebras and their representation theory, a Lie algebra extension e is an enlargement of a given Lie algebra g by another Lie algebra h. Extensions...
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    The rank–nullity theorem is a theorem in linear algebra, which asserts: the number of columns of a matrix M is the sum of the rank of M and the nullity...
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