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  2. Exponential decay - Wikipedia

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    Exponential decay is a scalar multiple of the exponential distribution (i.e. the individual lifetime of each object is exponentially distributed), which has a well-known expected value. We can compute it here using integration by parts .

  3. List of mathematical theories - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mathematical theories . Almgren–Pitts min-max theory. Approximation theory. Arakelov theory. Artin–Schreier theory. Asymptotic theory. Automata theory. Bass–Serre theory. Bifurcation theory.

  4. Half-life - Wikipedia

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    Half-life (symbol t½) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable atoms survive. The term is also used more generally to characterize any type of exponential (or, rarely ...

  5. Algebra - Wikipedia

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    Algebra is relevant to many branches of mathematics, like geometry, topology, number theory, and calculus, and other fields of inquiry, like logic and the empirical sciences. Definition and etymology Algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies algebraic operations [a] and algebraic structures . [2]

  6. Spectral theorem - Wikipedia

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    Spectral theorem. In mathematics, particularly linear algebra and functional analysis, a spectral theorem is a result about when a linear operator or matrix can be diagonalized (that is, represented as a diagonal matrix in some basis). This is extremely useful because computations involving a diagonalizable matrix can often be reduced to much ...

  7. Algebraic structure - Wikipedia

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    e. In mathematics, an algebraic structure consists of a nonempty set A (called the underlying set, carrier set or domain ), a collection of operations on A (typically binary operations such as addition and multiplication), and a finite set of identities, known as axioms, that these operations must satisfy. An algebraic structure may be based on ...

  8. Monotonic function - Wikipedia

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    A function that is not monotonic. In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order. [1] [2] [3] This concept first arose in calculus, and was later generalized to the more abstract setting of order theory .

  9. Matrix exponential - Wikipedia

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    It is used to solve systems of linear differential equations. In the theory of Lie groups, the matrix exponential gives the exponential map between a matrix Lie algebra and the corresponding Lie group . Let X be an n×n real or complex matrix. The exponential of X, denoted by eX or exp (X), is the n×n matrix given by the power series.