Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

algebraic combinatorics

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.18 in modern English

Syllables: al-ge-braic -com-bi-na-torics
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A branch of mathematics in which techniques from abstract algebra are applied to problems in combinatorics, and vice versa.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1982, Trevor Evans, Finite Representations of Two-variable Identities, E. Mendelsohn, Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, North-Holland, page 135, 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."
"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."
"This book is intended primarily as a one-semester undergraduate text for a course in algebraic combinatorics.[…]Algebraic combinatorics is a huge subject, so some selection process was necessary to obtain the present text."

Etymology

From late 1970s.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does algebraic combinatorics mean?: A branch of mathematics in which techniques from abstract algebra are applied to problems in combinatorics, and vice versa.
Where does algebraic combinatorics come from?: From late 1970s.

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