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constructive analysis

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  • transformation of a circular region into an approximately rectangular region
    In analysis: Constructive analysis

    One philosophical feature of traditional analysis, which worries mathematicians whose outlook is especially concrete, is that many basic theorems assert the existence of various numbers or functions but do not specify what those numbers or functions are. For instance, the completeness property of…

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