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S: (n) topology (topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography)) "Greenland's topology has been shaped by the glaciers of the ice age"
S: (n) regional anatomy, topographic anatomy, topology (the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region)
S: (n) topology, analysis situs (the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions)
S: (n) pure mathematics (the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness)
S: (n) fractal geometry ((mathematics) the geometry of fractals) "Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry"
S: (n) non-Euclidean geometry ((mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's) "non-Euclidean geometries discard or replace one or more of the Euclidean axioms"
S: (n) hyperbolic geometry ((mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane) "Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry"
S: (n) elliptic geometry, Riemannian geometry ((mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle) "Bernhard Riemann pioneered elliptic geometry"
S: (n) numerical analysis ((mathematics) the branch of mathematics that studies algorithms for approximating solutions to problems in the infinitesimal calculus)
S: (n) triangulation (a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points a known distance apart; useful in navigation)
S: (n) algebra (the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations)
S: (n) quadratics (a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations)
S: (n) linear algebra (the part of algebra that deals with the theory of linear equations and linear transformation)
S: (n) vector algebra (the part of algebra that deals with the theory of vectors and vector spaces)
S: (n) calculus, infinitesimal calculus (the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions)
S: (n) analysis (a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation)
S: (n) differential calculus, method of fluxions (the part of calculus that deals with the variation of a function with respect to changes in the independent variable (or variables) by means of the concepts of derivative and differential)
S: (n) integral calculus (the part of calculus that deals with integration and its application in the solution of differential equations and in determining areas or volumes etc.)
S: (n) Galois theory (group theory applied to the solution of algebraic equations)
S: (n) topology, analysis situs (the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions)