branch of mathematics

collocation in English

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branch
noun[C]
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/brɑːntʃ/us
/bræntʃ/
a part of ...
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mathematics
noun[U]
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/ˌmæθˈmæt.ɪks/us
/ˌmæθˈmæt̬.ɪks/
the study of numbers, shapes, and space using reason and usually a special system of symbols and rules for ...
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(Definition ofbranchandmathematicsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Rather, they appear as a tacit code shared by practitioners of a givenbranchofmathematics.
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By the nineteenth century the priority had been reversed; probability became abranchofmathematicswith some possibility of application to practical decisions.
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Each episode covers a differentbranchofmathematics.
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It is thebranchofmathematicsthat includes calculus.
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This book is an encyclopedic compilation of facts and results in domain theory, thebranchofmathematicsused to describe the denotational semantics of programming languages, simplified to lambda-calculi.
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Links and knots are studied in abranchofmathematicscalled knot theory.
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Thisbranchofmathematicsdeals with the long-term qualitative behavior of dynamical systems.
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Anotherbranchofmathematicsknown as universal algebra studies algebraic structures in general.
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Topological spaces show up naturally in almost everybranchofmathematics.
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Their study has now transformed into a majorbranchofmathematics.
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The prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in anybranchofmathematics.
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In these articles, he built a newbranchofmathematics, called qualitative theory of differential equations.
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This marked the beginning of graph theory as its ownbranchofmathematics.
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This relationship is the basis of algebraic geometry, an importantbranchofmathematics.
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To understand differential equations better, a newbranchofmathematicswas born.
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It is less commonly used to refer to a mathematical proof in thebranchofmathematicsknown as mathematical statistics.
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Abranchofmathematicscalled non-well-founded set theory allows for the construction of circular sets.
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Surprisingly, the exceptional objects in onebranchofmathematicsare often related to the exceptional objects in others.
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The most general setting in which these words have meaning is an abstractbranchofmathematicscalled category theory.
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It was a parallel to the development of mathematical logic as a stand-alonebranchofmathematics.
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For navigation and accurate maps of large areas, trigonometry grew to be a majorbranchofmathematics.
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He is known for his application of abranchofmathematicsknown as chaos theory to economic theory and econometrics.
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Boole himself did not see logic as abranchofmathematics, but it has come to be encompassed anyway.
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Beyond its foundational role, set theory is abranchofmathematicsin its own right, with an active research community.
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Geometric group theory, as a distinct area, is relatively new, and became a clearly identifiablebranchofmathematicsin the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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