Form - Mathematics

Mathematics

  • Algebraic form (homogeneous polynomial), which generalises quadratic forms to degrees 3 and more, also known as quantics or simply forms
  • Bilinear form, on a vector space V over a field F is a mapping V × V → F that is linear in both arguments
  • Differential form, a concept from differential topology that combines multilinear forms and smooth functions
  • Indeterminate form, an algebraic expression that cannot be used to evaluate a limit
  • Modular form, a (complex) analytic function on the upper half plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition
  • Multilinear form, which generalises bilinear forms to mappings VN → F
  • Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables

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