Apparently: the art of multiplying effort through the use of levers or other simple machines.

The branch of mathematics concerned with the behaviour and properties of numbers, functions, and other abstract entities and structures, studied…

With singular or (occasionally) plural agreement:(a) the body of theoretical and practical knowledge concerned with the invention and construction of…

The process of calculating, or reducing something to, a residue or residual.

any of various theories involving or concerning chaos or disorder; spec. (in later use) the mathematical study of chaos (sense 6) and chaotic systems.

Mathematics. The branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and relationships of numbers, esp. the positive integers. Cf. theory, n. 1b.

Mathematics. The conception of pure mathematics as the manipulation according to certain formal rules of symbols that are intrinsically meaningless.

Mathematics. The theory put forward by L. E. J. Brouwer (1908) that mathematics is founded on extra-linguistic constructs based on pure intuition…

(a) Accounting a method for determining value based on replacement cost; (b) a formal or mathematical approach to determining the most economical…

With singular agreement. The application of mathematical analysis and techniques to aspects of biological research and theory.

the branch of mathematics concerned with the syntactic (as opposed to semantic) properties of formulae and proofs in formal systems.

Mathematics. The doctrine that only methods involving a finite number of steps should be used in mathematics; the rejection of actual infinities.

The formal study of the relations between parts and wholes.

With singular agreement. The branch of mathematics dealing with combinations of objects belonging to a finite set in accordance with certain…

A branch of mathematics concerned with creating and solving cryptarithms; cryptarithms collectively.

Mathematical treatment of the processes involved in making decisions and developing strategies, esp. in situations of competition or conflict…

the branch of mathematics that deals with the development and use of numerical methods for solving problems (usually ones too complicated for…

the study of the structure and behaviour of queues of people, traffic, etc.

A view of mathematics according to which only constructive proofs, and entities demonstrable by them, are admissible.

Mathematics. More fully computational complexity. A measure of the difficulty of solving a class of problem, as measured by the expected number of…

the topological description of systems which display abrupt discontinuous change.

= chaos theory n. at chaos, n. compounds 2. Now rare.