Branches of Mathematics

Pure mathematics

• Algebra
• Calculus
• Geometry
• Topology
• Trignometry
• Combinatorics
• Logic
• Number theory

Applied mathematics

• Dynamical systems and differential equations
• Mathematical physics
• Computing
• Information theory and signal processing
• Probability and statistics
• Game theory
• Operations research

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• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Linear Equations
• Applied Physics
• Nano Technology
• Engineering Sciences
• Mathematical Medicine
• Fluid dynamics
• Computational Mathematics
• Gamma Ray Optics
• Onfrared Optics
• Relative Velocity
• Iciam
• Intelligent Imaging Neuroscience
• Biomedical Engineering
• Neuroscience Research
• Quantum Cosmology
• Brain Research

• Abstract object
• Abstraction
• Adolph Stöhr
• Ambiguity
• Analytic philosophy
• Anima mundi
• Anti-realism
• Aristotle
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Averroes
• Axiology
• Baruch Spinoza
• Being
• Benjamin Lee Whorf
• Bertrand Russell
• Categorization
• Category Metaphysics
• Category of being
• Causality
• Choice
• Class (philosophy)
• Cogito ergo sum
• Concept
• Confucius
• Contrastivism
• Conventionalism
• Cosmology
• Cratylism
• Cratylus (dialogue)
• David Hume
• Deconstruction
• Determinism
• Digital identity
• Dorothy Emmet
• Dramatism
• Duns Scotus
• Edward Sapir
• Embodied cognition
• Enactivism
• Entitativity
• Entity
• Entity class
• Entity realism
• Epistemology
• Essence
• Essentialism
• Existence
• Existentialism
• Experience
• Expressivism
• Franz Boas
• Free will
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Fritz Mauthner
• G. E. Moore
• George Berkeley
• Ghost
• Gilbert Ryle
• Gottlob Frege
• Gustav Bergmann
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Henri Bergson
• Hilary Putnam
• Hindu idealism
• Ibn Khaldun
• Idea
• Idealism
• Identity and change
• Immanuel Kant
• Information
• Insight
• Intelligence
• Intension
• Intention
• Isaac Newton
• J. L. Austin
• Jacques Derrida
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• John Locke
• Kapila
• Language
• Legal fiction
• Leonard Bloomfield
• Lev Vygotsky
• Liberty
• Life
• Limited Inc
• Linguistic modality
• Linguistics
• Logical atomism
• Logical form
• Logical positivism
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Maimonides
• Martin Heidegger
• Materialism
• Matter
• Matter (philosophy)
• Meaning of life
• Memetics
• Meta
• Metalanguage
• Metaphysics
• Mind
• Monism
• Motion (physics)
• Necessity
• Nihilism
• Noam Chomsky
• Nominalism
• Non-cognitivism
• Non-physical entity
• Notion (philosophy)
• Object (philosophy)
• Of Grammatology
• Ontology
• P. F. Strawson
• Parmenides
• Pattern
• Paul Grice
• Paul Ricœur
• Paul Tillich
• Perception
• Phallogocentrism
• Phenomenalism
• Philosophical logic
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy of self
• Physical body
• Physicalism
• Plato
• Platonic idealism
• Plotinus
• Portal Metaphysics
• Pragmatics
• Principle
• Proposition
• Pyrrhonism
• Qualia
• Quality (philosophy)
• Quietism
• R. G. Collingwood
• Reality
• Relativism
• Relevance theory
• René Descartes
• Rhetoric
• Rudolf Carnap
• Sankhya
• Saul Kripke
• Scholasticism
• Scientific realism
• Semantic externalism
• Semantic holism
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Sense and reference
• Set (mathematics)
• Sign (semiotics)
• Solipsism
• Soul
• Speech act
• Spirit
• Statement (logic)
• Stoicism
• Structuralism
• Subject (philosophy)
• Subjectivism
• Substance theory
• Substantial form
• Supposition theory
• Symbiosism
• Symbol
• Teleology
• Template Metaphysics
• Theoretical physics
• Thomas Aquinas
• Thomas Hobbes
• Thought
• Time
• Truth
• Truth-bearer
• Type theory
• Unobservable
• Value (ethics)
• Verification theory
• W. V. Quine
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Xun Zi
• Zhuangzi
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  England
  England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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  La Scala
  La Scala (), is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala (). The premiere performance was Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta. Today the theatre is recognized as one of the leading opera and ballet theatres in the world and is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet and La Scala Theatre Orchestra. The theatre also has an associate school, known as the La Scala Theatre Academy (), which offers professional training in music, dance, stage craft and stage management.
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  Royal Opera House
  The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Originally called the Theatre Royal, it served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. In 1734, the first ballet was presented. A year later Handel's first season of operas began. Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there.
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  Stockport
  Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground on the River Mersey at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame, southeast of the city of Manchester. Stockport is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, and has a population of 136,082, the wider borough having 281,000.
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• The Place
  The Place is a dance and performance centre in Duke's Road near Euston in the London Borough of Camden. Originally the home base of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre from the 1970s, it is now the location of the London Contemporary Dance School, the Richard Alston Dance Company and the Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
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  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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  University of Leeds
  The University of Leeds (informally Leeds University, or simply Leeds) is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named The Yorkshire College, a successor to the Leeds School of Medicine, it became part of the Victoria University alongside Owens College (which eventually became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool). In 1904, a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.
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• A. J. Ayer
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• Adolph Stöhr
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• Aristotle
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• Arthur Schopenhauer
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• Averroes
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• Baruch Spinoza
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  Benjamin Lee Whorf
  Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought. An important theme in many of his publications, he has been credited as one of the fathers of this approach, often referred to as the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir. Originally educated as a chemical engineer, he took up an interest in linguistics late in his life, studying with Sapir at Yale University. In the last ten years of his life he dedicated his spare time to linguistic studies, doing field work on Native American languages in the US and Mexico. He managed to become one of the most influential linguists of his time, even while still working as a fire inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. He published a grammar of the Hopi language, studies of Nahuatl dialects, Maya hieroglyphic writing, and the first attempt at a reconstruction of Uto-Aztecan. He also published many articles in the most prestigious linguistic journals, many of them dealing with the ways in which he saw that different linguistic systems affected the thought systems and habitual behaviour of language users.
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• Bertrand Russell
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• Confucius
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• David Hume
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• Dorothy Emmet
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  Duns Scotus
  Blessed John (Johannes) Duns Scotus, O.F.M. (c. 1265 – 8 November 1308) was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought.
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• Edward Sapir
  Edward Sapir (), (January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was a German-born American anthropologist-linguist and a leader in American structural linguistics. He was one of the creators of what is now called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He was a highly influential figure in American linguistics, influencing several generations of linguists across several schools of the discipline.
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  Franz Boas
  Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German American anthropologist a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He applied the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies; previously this discipline was based on the formulation of grand theories around anecdotal knowledge.
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  Friedrich Nietzsche
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; in English , ) (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
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  G. E. Moore
  :"G.E. Moore" redirects here. For the cofounder of Intel, see Gordon Moore.
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  George Berkeley
  George Berkeley ( ) (12 March 1685 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory contends that individuals can only know directly sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions such as "matter". The theory also contends that ideas are dependent upon being perceived by minds for their very existence, a belief that became immortalized in the dictum, "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). He published his chief philosophical work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710.
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• Gilbert Ryle
  Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900, Brighton – 6 October 1976, Oxford), was a British philosopher, and a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine". Some of his ideas in the philosophy of mind have been referred to as "behaviourist" (not to be confused with the psychological behaviourism of B. F. Skinner and John B. Watson). Ryle's best known book is The Concept of Mind (1949), in which he writes that the "general trend of this book will undoubtedly, and harmlessly, be stigmatised as 'behaviourist'." Ryle, having engaged in detailed study of the key works of Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Husserl, and Heidegger, himself suggested instead that the book "could be described as a sustained essay in phenomenology, if you are at home with that label."
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• Gottlob Frege
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• Gustav Bergmann
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• Hans-Georg Gadamer
  Hans-Georg Gadamer (; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).
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• Henri Bergson
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  Hilary Putnam
  Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31, 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions as to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. As a result, he has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his own position. Putnam is currently Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
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• Ibn Khaldun
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• Immanuel Kant
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• Isaac Newton
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• J. L. Austin
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• Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida () (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in Algeria. He developed the critical technique known as deconstruction, and his work has been associated both with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. His prolific output of more than 40 published books, together with essays and public speaking, has had a significant impact upon the humanities, particularly on literary theory and continental philosophy. His best known assertion with regard to his methodology is that "there is no outside-the-text."
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  Jean-Paul Sartre
  Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. Sartre was also noted for his long relationship with the author and social theorist, Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused the honour.
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• John Locke
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• Leonard Bloomfield
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• Lev Vygotsky
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• Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• Maimonides
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• Martin Heidegger
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  Noam Chomsky
  Avram Noam Chomsky ( or ; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist, referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. Chomsky is the author of more than 100 books and has received worldwide attention for his views, despite being typically absent from the mainstream media.
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• P. F. Strawson
  Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the following year until 1968. On his retirement in 1987, he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his death.
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  Parmenides
  Parmenides of Elea (Greek: ; fl. early 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In The Way of Truth (a part of the poem), he explains how reality is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. In The Way of Opinion, he explains the world of appearances, which is false and deceitful. These thoughts strongly influenced Plato, and through him, the whole of Western philosophy.
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• Paul Grice
  Herbert Paul Grice (March 13, 1913, Birmingham, England – August 28, 1988, Berkeley, California), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spent the final two decades of his career in the United States.
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• Paul Ricœur
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• Paul Tillich
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• Plato
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• Plotinus
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• R. G. Collingwood
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• René Descartes
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• Rudolf Carnap
  Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism.
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  Saul Kripke
  Saul Aaron Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts (see "Unpublished Manuscripts and Online Lectures" below). Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. A recent poll conducted among philosophers ranked Kripke among the top ten most important philosophers of the past 200 years.
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• Thomas Hobbes
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• W. V. Quine
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• Wilhelm von Humboldt
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