a-
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 19 words.
Prefix meaning ‘not’. For example, an asymmetric figure is one which possesses no symmetry, which is not symmetrical.
A
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 7 words.
The number 10 in hexadecimal notation.
A + B = C and big III's
in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
March 1998; published online March 1998.
Journal Article. Subjects: pure mathematics. 0 words.
Assuming standard conjectures we show that there exist elliptic curves with Tate-Shafarevich group of order essentially as large as the square root of the conductor. We present some concrete...
abacus
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 26 words.
A counting device consisting of rods on which beads can be moved so as to represent numbers.
Abel, Niels Henrik (1802–29)
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 94 words.
who, at the age of 19, proved that the general equation of degree greater than 4 cannot be solved algebraically.
abelian group
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 38 words.
Suppose that G is a *group with the operation ￮. Then G is abelian if the operation ￮ is commutative;
ABELIAN VARIETIES
in Fourier-Mukai Transforms in Algebraic Geometry
April 2006; published online September 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: geometry. 18902 words.
Historically, Mukai's equivalence with the Poincare bundle on the product of an abelian variety and its dual as kernel was the fist Fourier-Mukai transform. The first section in this chapter...
Abel's test
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 47 words.
A test for the convergence of an infinite series which states that if ∑a n is a convergent sequence,
above
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 64 words.
Greater than. The limit of a function at a from above is the limit of f(x) as
abscissa
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
January 2009; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: pure mathematics. 11 words.
The x-coordinate in a Cartesian coordinate system in the plane.