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  2. Closure (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The concepts of closed sets and closure are often extended to any property of subsets that are stable under intersection; that is, every intersection of subsets that have the property has also the property. For example, in , a Zariski-closed set, also known as an algebraic set, is the set of the common zeros of a family of polynomials, and the ...

  3. Proofs involving the addition of natural numbers - Wikipedia

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    The base case b = 0 follows immediately from the identity element property (0 is an additive identity), which has been proved above: a + 0 = a = 0 + a. Next we will prove the base case b = 1, that 1 commutes with everything, i.e. for all natural numbers a, we have a + 1 = 1 + a.

  4. Commutative property - Wikipedia

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    Today the commutative property is a well-known and basic property used in most branches of mathematics. The first recorded use of the term commutative was in a memoir by François Servois in 1814, [ 1 ] [ 10 ] which used the word commutatives when describing functions that have what is now called the commutative property.

  5. Kleene algebra - Wikipedia

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    The closure of V is the direct sum of all powers of V. = = Suppose M is a set and A is the set of all binary relations on M. Taking + to be the union, · to be the composition and * to be the reflexive transitive closure, we obtain a Kleene algebra.

  6. Additive identity - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the additive identity of a set that is equipped with the operation of addition is an element which, when added to any element x in the set, yields x.One of the most familiar additive identities is the number 0 from elementary mathematics, but additive identities occur in other mathematical structures where addition is defined, such as in groups and rings.

  7. Idempotence - Wikipedia

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    Idempotence (UK: / ˌ ɪ d ɛ m ˈ p oʊ t ən s /, [1] US: / ˈ aɪ d ə m-/) [2] is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.

  8. Real closed field - Wikipedia

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    If F is an ordered field, the Artin–Schreier theorem states that F has an algebraic extension, called the real closure K of F, such that K is a real closed field whose ordering is an extension of the given ordering on F, and is unique up to a unique isomorphism of fields identical on F [2] (note that every ring homomorphism between real closed fields automatically is order preserving ...

  9. Algebraically closed field - Wikipedia

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    As an example, the field of real numbers is not algebraically closed, because the polynomial equation + = has no solution in real numbers, even though all its coefficients (1 and 0) are real. The same argument proves that no subfield of the real field is algebraically closed; in particular, the field of rational numbers is not algebraically closed.