English Explanatory Dictionary

additive combinatorics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A subbranch of combinatorics that concerns additive problems expressed using sumsets.

Word forms

additive combinatorics

Etymology

Coined circa early 2000s by Australian-American mathematician Terence Tao for a rapidly developing field growing out of combinatorial number theory, named differently to reflect a changed emphasis in the problems being studied.

Synonyms

discipline that concerns combinatorics problems expressed using sumsets

Related words

additive number theory combinatorics
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