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interreducibilitynoun(mathematics) The condition of being interreducible
irredundancenoun(mathematics) The condition of being irredundant
pseudoreductionnounSomething that resembles a reduction but is not a true reduction.
aliorelativitynoun(philosophy, mathematics) The property or principle that nothing is related to itself by a given relation.
irreducibleNot able to be reduced or lessened.
autoreducibilitynoun(mathematics, set theory) The state or quality of being autoreducible.
irrepnoun(mathematics) Clipping of irreducible representation.
reduction to the absurdnounSynonym of reductio ad absurdum.
indecomposabilitynoun(mathematics) The condition of being indecomposable
reductionnounThe act, process, or result of reducing.
reductionismnounAn approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
axiomatizationnounThe reduction of some system or concept to a set of axioms.
destructive soritesnoun(logic) A form of reductio ad absurdum which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last.
logicismnoun(philosophy) The doctrine that mathematics is a branch of logic in that some or all mathematics is reducible to logic.
abel's irreducibility theoremnoun(mathematics) A field theory result asserting that if ƒ(x) is a polynomial over a field F that shares a root with a polynomial g(x) that is irreducible over F, then every root of g(x) is a root of ƒ(x).
reduced ringnoun(algebra, ring theory) A ring R that has no nonzero nilpotent elements; equivalently, such that, for x ∈ R, x² = 0 implies x = 0.
beta reductionnoun(computing theory) One of the three rewrite rules of the lambda calculus, which states that the application of a lambda abstraction (λx.t) to a term s yields an expression t[s/x], "t with s instead of x", where all free instances of x in t have been replaced by s.
cook reductionnoun(computing theory) A Turing reduction that runs in polynomial time.
church-rosser theoremnoun(mathematics, computing theory) A theorem stating that, when applying reduction rules to terms in the lambda calculus, the ordering in which the reductions are chosen makes no difference to the eventual result.
law of nontrivialitynoun(logic) The rule that states that not all propositions are true, the opposite of trivialism.

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