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combinatorial geometry

noun

Etymology

From circa 1955.

Definitions

  1. The field of mathematics which examines extremal problems of a combinatorial nature…

    The field of mathematics which examines extremal problems of a combinatorial nature expressed geometrically.

    • The generation of combinatorial types of point configurations and hyperplane arrangements point configurations and hyperplane arrangements has long been an outstanding problem of combinatorial geometry.
    • The following problem of Erdős [Er46] is possibly the best known (and simplest to explain) problem in combinatorial geometry. How often can the same distance occur among n points in the plane?

  2. A simple matroid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for combinatorial geometry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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