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Geometry index. In coordination chemistry and crystallography, the geometry index or structural parameter (τ) is a number ranging from 0 to 1 that indicates what the geometry of the coordination center is. The first such parameter for 5-coordinate compounds was developed in 1984. [1] Later, parameters for 4-coordinate compounds were developed. [2]
A Latin square is said to be reduced (also, normalized or in standard form) if both its first row and its first column are in their natural order. [4] For example, the Latin square above is not reduced because its first column is A, C, B rather than A, B, C. Any Latin square can be reduced by permuting (that is, reordering) the rows and columns ...
Pascal's triangle. A diagram showing the first eight rows of Pascal's triangle. In mathematics, Pascal's triangle is an infinite triangular array of the binomial coefficients which play a crucial role in probability theory, combinatorics, and algebra. In much of the Western world, it is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal ...
Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...
Romberg's method. In numerical analysis, Romberg's method[1] is used to estimate the definite integral by applying Richardson extrapolation [2] repeatedly on the trapezium rule or the rectangle rule (midpoint rule). The estimates generate a triangular array. Romberg's method is a Newton–Cotes formula – it evaluates the integrand at equally ...
We need not raise or lower all indices at once: it is perfectly fine to raise or lower a single index. Lowering an index of an tensor gives a tensor, while raising an index gives a (where have suitable values, for example we cannot lower the index of a tensor.)
Matrix (mathematics) An m × n matrix: the m rows are horizontal and the n columns are vertical. Each element of a matrix is often denoted by a variable with two subscripts. For example, a2,1 represents the element at the second row and first column of the matrix. In mathematics, a matrix (pl.: matrices) is a rectangular array or table of ...
Saddle point. In mathematics, a saddle point or minimax point[1] is a point on the surface of the graph of a function where the slopes (derivatives) in orthogonal directions are all zero (a critical point), but which is not a local extremum of the function. [2] An example of a saddle point is when there is a critical point with a relative ...