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For any integers a_i with 1<=a_1<a_2<...<a_k<=n, the proportion of permutations in the symmetric group S_n whose cyclic decompositions contain no cycles of lengths a_1, a_2, ...

A program initiated by F. Klein in an 1872 lecture to describe geometric structures in terms of their automorphism groups.

A metric topology induced by the Euclidean metric. In the Euclidean topology of the n-dimensional space R^n, the open sets are the unions of n-balls. On the real line this ...

A class of processes which attempt to round off a domain and simplify its theory by adjoining elements.

The exponential sum function e_n(x), sometimes also denoted exp_n(x), is defined by e_n(x) = sum_(k=0)^(n)(x^k)/(k!) (1) = (e^xGamma(n+1,x))/(Gamma(n+1)), (2) where ...

Exponentiation is the process of taking a quantity b (the base) to the power of another quantity e (the exponent). This operation most commonly denoted b^e. In TeX, the ...

A set of curves whose equations are of the same form but which have different values assigned to one or more parameters in the equations. Families of curves arise, for ...

The closed plane curve that crosses itself once and consists of one lobe on each side of the intersection. It can be viewed as a circle with a half twist. The fundamental ...

A set function mu is finitely additive if, given any finite disjoint collection of sets {E_k}_(k=1)^n on which mu is defined, mu( union _(k=1)^nE_k)=sum_(k=1)^nmu(E_k).

The branch of mathematics which does not involve infinite sets, limits, or continuity.