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  2. Dirichlet's approximation theorem - Wikipedia

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    This shows that any irrational number has irrationality measure at least 2. The Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem says that, for algebraic irrational numbers, the exponent of 2 in the corollary to Dirichlet’s approximation theorem is the best we can do: such numbers cannot be approximated by any exponent greater than 2.

  3. Linear energy transfer - Wikipedia

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    Diffusion cloud chamber with tracks of ionizing radiation (alpha particles) that are made visible as strings of droplets. In dosimetry, linear energy transfer (LET) is the amount of energy that an ionizing particle transfers to the material traversed per unit distance.

  4. Minimal polynomial (linear algebra) - Wikipedia

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    T 3 ⋅ e 1 = −4T 2 ⋅ e 1 − T ⋅ e 1 + e 1, so that: μ T, e 1 = X 3 + 4X 2 + X − I. This is in fact also the minimal polynomial μ T and the characteristic polynomial χ T : indeed μ T, e 1 divides μ T which divides χ T, and since the first and last are of degree 3 and all are monic, they must all be the same.

  5. Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem - Wikipedia

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    The theorem is also known variously as the Hermite–Lindemann theorem and the Hermite–Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem.Charles Hermite first proved the simpler theorem where the α i exponents are required to be rational integers and linear independence is only assured over the rational integers, [4] [5] a result sometimes referred to as Hermite's theorem. [6]

  6. Transcendental number theory - Wikipedia

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    In the twentieth century work by Axel Thue, [6] Carl Siegel, [7] and Klaus Roth [8] reduced the exponent in Liouville's work from d + ε to d/2 + 1 + ε, and finally, in 1955, to 2 + ε. This result, known as the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem , is ostensibly the best possible, since if the exponent 2 + ε is replaced by just 2 then the result is ...

  7. Complex conjugate root theorem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the complex conjugate root theorem states that if P is a polynomial in one variable with real coefficients, and a + bi is a root of P with a and b real numbers, then its complex conjugate a − bi is also a root of P.

  8. Gauss's lemma (polynomials) - Wikipedia

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    For a concrete example one can take R = Z[i√5], p = 1 + i√5, a = 1 − i√5, q = 2, b = 3. In this example the polynomial 3 + 2X + 2X 2 (obtained by dividing the right hand side by q = 2) provides an example of the failure of the irreducibility statement (it is irreducible over R, but reducible over its field of fractions Q[i√5]).

  9. Lambda calculus - Wikipedia

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    Lambda calculus is Turing complete, that is, it is a universal model of computation that can be used to simulate any Turing machine. [3] Its namesake, the Greek letter lambda (λ), is used in lambda expressions and lambda terms to denote binding a variable in a function.