combinatorial analysis

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. the branch of mathematics that deals with permutations and combinations, especially used in statistics and probability.

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combinatorial analysis British  

noun

1. Also called: combinatorics.  the branch of mathematics concerned with the theory of enumeration, or combinations and permutations, in order to solve problems about the possibility of constructing arrangements of objects which satisfy specified conditions

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Etymology

Origin of combinatorial analysis

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

The enumeration of all possible cases is thus reduced to a simple question in combinatorial analysis, and the actual study of any particular case is much facilitated by a useful rule of Klein’s for writing down in a simple form two quadratics belonging to a given class—one of which, of course, represents the equation connecting line coordinates, and the other the equation of the complex.

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For more advanced treatment of linear indeterminate equations see Combinatorial Analysis.

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Professor James Waddell Alexander will lecture on combinatorial analysis situs, hold seminars on the applications of algebra and group theory to topology.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Combinatorial Analysis, as it was understood up to the end of the 18th century, was of limited scope and restricted application.

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P. Nicholson, in his Essays on the Combinatorial Analysis, published Historical Introduction. in 1818, states that “the Combinatorial Analysis is a branch of mathematics which teaches us to ascertain and exhibit all the possible ways in which a given number of things may be associated and mixed together; so that we may be certain that we have not missed any collection or arrangement of these things that has not been enumerated.”

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