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Questions tagged [terminology]

Questions on the usage and meaning of words in mathematics, the names for mathematical entities, and other such questions.

Terminology is a discipline that studies, among other things, the development of terms and their interrelationships. This tag is intended to be used for questions on the usage and meaning of words in mathematics, the names for mathematical entities, and other such questions.

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Does the mathematical meaning of "up to" relate to the ordinary English meanings?

Does "up to" defined by Pete L. Clark or Tobias Kildetoft relate to the 2020 English meanings from OED? If not, why did mathematicians utilize "up to"?
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Is there a name for the subset that completely equals the set in which it is contained?

I have a set (of related concepts) that I wish to divide (classify) into an arbitrary number of subsets (categories), but when I divide the set (into categories) there will always be one subset that is equal to the original "unabridged" set (e.g.…
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What does "sign" mean in this context?

My lecturer is prone to making mistakes in his slides and I was wondering if this was one of them. edit: included the whole slide to give more context
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What is the difference between "the above theorem" and "the theorem above"?

How do you use these two? What is their difference? "the above theorem" and "the theorem above". In my case, I want to say something like: Proof of the theorem above follows from lemma X and theorem Y.
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Grammar of Mathematics

M and N are on the same side of P(1); M and N are on same sides of P(2); M and P are on the opposite side of N(3); M and P are on opposite sides of N(4); Which of the above is correct (grammar). Image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/vOYMV.png
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If a set is a subset of a larger set, does it make sense to use the word "and" to compare the subset to its parent set?

I am wondering, from a formalized mathematical standpoint, if it makes sense to say A and B if B is a subset of A. For example, machine learning and AI is a common expression in the software industry. AI here refers specifically to Deep Learning (in…
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