Additive combinatorics
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Etymology
Coined circa early 2000s by Australian-American mathematician Template:W for a rapidly developing field growing out of combinatorial number theory, named differently to reflect a changed emphasis in the problems being studied.[1][2]
Noun
- Template:Lb A subbranch of combinatorics that concerns additive problems expressed using sumsets.
- 2007, Template:W, Additive Combinatorics, Template:W, [1].
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References
- ↑ 2009 July, Template:W, Book Reviews: Additive combinatorics, by Terence C. Tao and Van H. Vu, Template:W, New Series, Volume 46, Number 3, pages 489–497—The term additive combinatorics was coined a few years ago by Terry Tao to describe a rapidly developing and rather exciting area of mathematics.
- ↑ 2009, Template:W, Part II: Sumsets and Structure, Alfred Geroldinger, Imre Ruzsa (editors), Combinatorial Number Theory and Additive Group Theory, Springer (Birkhäuser), Template:W, page 88—The course is devoted to several aspects of combinatorial number theory, or additive combinatorics as it is now often called. This change in terminology reflects a shift in the emphasis of problems investigated.