There are two key types of well-formed expressions: terms, which intuitively represent objects, and formulas, which intuitively express statements that can be true or false. The terms and formulas of …

A lesser known quadratic formula, as used in Muller's method, provides the same roots via the equation This can be deduced from the standard quadratic formula by Vieta's formulas, which assert that the …

Indexing is one-based, [37] which is the usual convention for matrices in mathematics, unlike zero-based indexing commonly used in other programming languages such as C, C++, and Java.

This makes Prolog (and other logic programming languages) particularly useful for database, symbolic mathematics, and language parsing applications. Because Prolog allows impure predicates, …

Expressions denote a mathematical object, where as formulas denote a statement about mathematical objects. [6][7] This is analogous to natural language, where a noun phrase refers to an object, and a …

Lambda calculus has applications in many different areas in mathematics, philosophy, [6] linguistics, [7][8] and computer science. [9][10] Lambda calculus has played an important role in the …

Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the mathematics that was developed and used in Ancient Egypt c. 3000 to c. 300 BCE, from the Old Kingdom of Egypt until roughly the beginning of Hellenistic Egypt. …