combinatorics

[kuhm-bahy-nuh-tawr-iks, -tor-, kom-buh-]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. combinatorial analysis.

Example Sentences

He began pulling in different areas of math outside of combinatorics, including finite geometry, algebra and probability.

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They enlisted software developer Joseph Samuel Myers and University of Arkansas mathematician Chaim Goodman-Strauss, who had both worked with tiling and combinatorics in the past.

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Advised by Amit Sahai, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, the project has already paired 171 incarcerated people in 27 states with a mentor to work on topics from combinatorics to abstract algebra.

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In July, his work in geometric combinatorics won him the Fields Medal, given every four years to mathematicians younger than 40 and known as the “Nobel Prize in Mathematics.”

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There, he came to prominence in the field of combinatorics, the number of ways things can be shuffled.

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