Article: sequence

Article: limit
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      617 words ... ... Similarly, the sequence 3, 5, 3 1/2 ... 8 , 4 1/8 , … is seen to approach ... However, the sequences 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, …&thinsp ... limits. Frequently a sequence is denoted by giving ...

Article: nucleic acid
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... given gene is coded in the sequence in which the nucleotides ... strand. These nucleotide sequences determine the sequences of amino acids in the polypeptide ... strand (e.g., the DNA sequence AGTC … will specify ...

Article: series
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      480 words ... ... indicated sum of a sequence of terms. A series ... 8 + 1/16 + …&thinsp ... the series) form a sequence of values that progressively ... partial sums form the sequence 1/2 , 3/4 , 7/8 , 15/16 , …&thinsp ...

Article: algebraic geometry
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      425 words ... ... points in n -space are defined by ordered sequences of numbers ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , …  x n ), where each n -tuple specifies a unique point and x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , …  x n are members ...

Article: infinity
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      476 words ...infinity in mathematics, that which is not finite. A sequence of numbers, a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , … , is said to "approach infinity" if the numbers eventually become arbitrarily large ...

Article: Leonardo Fibonacci
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      421 words ... ... organized and extended the material then known in geometry and trigonometry. The sequence of numbers 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, … , formed by adding consecutive members, is named for him; it occurs in higher ...

Article: progression
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      561 words ...progression in mathematics, sequence of quantities, called terms ... An arithmetic progression is a sequence in which each term is derived ... form a, a + d, a +2 d,  … , a +( n -1) d,&thinsp ...