group theory
noun
: a branch of mathematics concerned with finding all mathematical groups and determining their properties
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The Monster in the Moonlight The monster was a theoretical prediction of group theory, an area of geometry that deals with the symmetrical properties of objects.
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
The Mandelbrot set is deeply related not just to dynamics, but also to number theory, topology, algebraic geometry, group theory and even physics.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Hart went on to earn a doctorate in group theory in 2000 and later became a professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
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, 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
Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
The Mandelbrot set is deeply related not just to dynamics, but also to number theory, topology, algebraic geometry, group theory and even physics.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Hart went on to earn a doctorate in group theory in 2000 and later became a professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
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, 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
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