group theory
noun
: a branch of mathematics concerned with finding all mathematical groups and determining their properties
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And the evolution of the cube — from a three-by-three-by-three shape to larger four-by-four-by-four and five-by-five-by-five ones — offers different complicated mathematical principles of group theory.
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Hope Reese, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
And the evolution of the cube—from a three-by-three-by-three shape to larger four-by-four-by-four and five-by-five-by-five ones—offers different complicated mathematical principles of group theory.
—Hope Reese/undark, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2020
Many astounding features of the faro shuffle can be expressed and generalized by a class of mathematics known as group theory.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2012
Roughly speaking, group theory is the mathematical language of symmetry.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2012
These powerful mathematical results established the relationship between the symmetries of group theory and the all-important conservation laws in physics---such as the conservation of energy, momentum, and electric charge.
—Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2012
This is part of a field of abstract algebra called group theory, which studies symmetry.
—Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
The diagrams that bell-ringers use to indicate a scheme of changes strongly resemble diagrams in group theory.
—Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
But almost exactly a hundred years before the Rubik's cube, the same thing happened with another toy that was an interesting group theory problem.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
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Hope Reese, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
And the evolution of the cube—from a three-by-three-by-three shape to larger four-by-four-by-four and five-by-five-by-five ones—offers different complicated mathematical principles of group theory.
—Hope Reese/undark, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2020
Many astounding features of the faro shuffle can be expressed and generalized by a class of mathematics known as group theory.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2012
Roughly speaking, group theory is the mathematical language of symmetry.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2012
These powerful mathematical results established the relationship between the symmetries of group theory and the all-important conservation laws in physics---such as the conservation of energy, momentum, and electric charge.
—Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2012
This is part of a field of abstract algebra called group theory, which studies symmetry.
—Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
The diagrams that bell-ringers use to indicate a scheme of changes strongly resemble diagrams in group theory.
—Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
But almost exactly a hundred years before the Rubik's cube, the same thing happened with another toy that was an interesting group theory problem.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
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1888, in the meaning defined above
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