combinatorics

English

Etymology

From German Kombinatorik + -ics.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑm.bɪn.əˈtɔɹ.ɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

combinatorics (uncountable)

1. (mathematics) a branch of mathematics that studies (usually finite) collections of objects that satisfy specified criteria

Derived terms

• additive combinatorics
• algebraic combinatorics
• arithmetic combinatorics
• biocombinatorics
• combinatoric
• combinatorist

Translations

a branch of mathematics

• Armenian: կոմբինատորիկա (hy) (kombinatorika)
• Azerbaijani: kombinatorika
• Bashkir: комбинаторика (kombinatorika)
• Bengali: গুচ্ছ-বিন্যাসতত্ত্ব (guccho-binnaśototto)
• Burmese: ကွန်ဘိုင်နတိုးရစ် (kwanbhuingna.tui:rac)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組合數學 / 组合数学 (zh) (zǔhé shùxué)

• Czech: kombinatorika f
• Danish: kombinatorik c
• Finnish: kombinatoriikka (fi)
• French: combinatoire (fr) f
• Galician: combinatoria (gl) f
• Georgian: კომბინატორიკა (ḳombinaṭoriḳa)
• German: Kombinatorik (de) f
• Hungarian: kombinatorika (hu)
• Icelandic: talningarfræði f
• Ido: kombinatoriko (io)
• Indonesian: kombinatorika
• Italian: calcolo combinatorio (it) m
• Japanese: 組合せ数学 (くみあわせすうがく, kumiawase sūgaku), 組合せ論 (くみあわせろん, kumiawase ron)
• Kazakh: комбинаторика (kombıynatorıyka)
• Korean: 조합론(組合論) (johamnon), 조합수학(組合數學) (johapsuhak)
• Kyrgyz: комбинаторика (kombinatorika)
• Latin: calculus coniunctionibus m, ars combinatoria f
• Norwegian: kombinatorikk m
• Persian: ترکیبیات
• Polish: kombinatoryka (pl) f
• Portuguese: combinatória (pt) f
• Russian: комбинато́рика (ru) f (kombinatórika)
• Serbo-Croatian: kombinatorika (sh) f
• Spanish: combinatoria (es) f
• Swedish: kombinatorik (sv) c
• Tamil: சேர்வியல் (cērviyal)
• Thai: คณิตศาสตร์เชิงการจัด
• Uzbek: kombinatorika
• Vietnamese: toán học tổ hợp, giải tích tổ hợp, đại số tổ hợp, lý thuyết tổ hợp

See also

• List of terms used in combinatorics