combinatorics

[ kuhm-bahy-nuh-tawr-iks, -tor-, kom-buh- ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. combinatorial analysis.

Example Sentences

He began pulling in different areas of math outside of combinatorics, including finite geometry, algebra and probability.

From Science Daily

They enlisted software developer Joseph Samuel Myers and University of Arkansas mathematician Chaim Goodman-Strauss, who had both worked with tiling and combinatorics in the past.

From Scientific American

Advised by Amit Sahai, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, the project has already paired 171 incarcerated people in 27 states with a mentor to work on topics from combinatorics to abstract algebra.

From Scientific American

The number one combinatorics question about Sudoku is: What is the smallest amount of numbers you can leave in the square so that there is only one way to fill in the grid?

From Literature

In fact, 17-clue Sudokus inspire something of a combinatorics cult.

From Literature