Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

morse theory

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: morse the-o-ry
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The study of differentiable functions, where the domain of each is a manifold and the codomain is the real line.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary […] the spaces that are used in Einstein’s theory are really pseudo-Riemannian and the relevant Morse theory differs in subtle but important ways."

Etymology

Based on the work of Marston Morse.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does morse theory mean?: The study of differentiable functions, where the domain of each is a manifold and the codomain is the real line.
Where does morse theory come from?: Based on the work of Marston Morse.

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