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algebraic combinatorics

algebraic combinatorics noun: a branch of mathematics in which techniques from abstract algebra are applied to problems in combinatorics, and vice versa.

Noun

algebraic combinatorics (uncountable)

  1. A branch of mathematics in which techniques from abstract algebra are applied to problems in combinatorics, and vice versa.
    • It is part of the folklore of algebraic combinatorics that “most' two-variable groupoid identities have non-trivial models in finite fields, the groupoid operation being represented by a linear function ax+by.1982, Trevor Evans, Finite Representations of Two-variable Identities, E. Mendelsohn, Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, North-Holland, page 135
    • This volume arose through the initiative of Kluwer Academic Publishers in an attempt to introduce some areas of research in algebraic combinatorics which originally appeared in Russian to a wider mathematical community.1993, I. A. Faradžev, A. A. Ivanov, M. Klin, A. J. Woldar, editors, Investigations in Algebraic Theory of Combinatorial Objects, Kluwer Academic, page vii

Origin of algebraic combinatorics

From late 1970s.

Questions about algebraic combinatorics

What does algebraic combinatorics mean?
Algebraic combinatorics means a branch of mathematics in which techniques from abstract algebra are applied to problems in combinatorics, and vice versa.
What part of speech is algebraic combinatorics?
Algebraic combinatorics is a noun.

Words near algebraic combinatorics in the dictionary

  1. algebraic
  2. algebraic analysis
  3. algebraic closure
  4. algebraic closure operator
  5. algebraic closures
  6. algebraic combinatorics
  7. algebraic curve
  8. algebraic curves
  9. algebraic data type
  10. algebraic data types
  11. algebraic equation

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