additive combinatorics
Meaning
Noun
- A subbranch of combinatorics that concerns additive problems expressed using sumsets.
Related
Similar words
- combinatorial number theory
Origin
- Coined circa early 2000s by Australian-American mathematician Terence Tao for a rapidly developing field growing out of combinatorial number theory, named differently to reflect a changed emphasis in the problems being studied.
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