math - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

rounding, rounding error - (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"

truncation error - (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished

mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation - (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"

rationalisation, rationalization - (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation

invariance - the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it; "the invariance of the configuration under translation"

accuracy - (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy"

factoring, factorisation, factorization - (mathematics) the resolution of an entity into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original entity

extrapolation - (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values

interpolation - (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known

formula, rule - (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"

recursion - (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation

invariant - a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it

multinomial, polynomial - a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms

series - (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

infinitesimal - (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit

fractal - (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry

pure mathematics - the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness

arithmetic - the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations

geometry - the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces

fractal geometry - (mathematics) the geometry of fractals; "Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry"

non-Euclidean geometry - (mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's; "non-Euclidean geometries discard or replace one or more of the Euclidean axioms"

hyperbolic geometry - (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane; "Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry"

elliptic geometry, Riemannian geometry - (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle; "Bernhard Riemann pioneered elliptic geometry"

numerical analysis - (mathematics) the branch of mathematics that studies algorithms for approximating solutions to problems in the infinitesimal calculus

spherical geometry - (mathematics) the geometry of figures on the surface of a sphere