Concept information
Preferred term
equation solving
Definition
- In mathematics, to solve an equation is to find its solutions, which are the values (numbers, functions, sets, etc.) that fulfill the condition stated by the equation, consisting generally of two expressions related by an equals sign. When seeking a solution, one or more variables are designated as unknowns. A solution is an assignment of values to the unknown variables that makes the equality in the equation true. In other words, a solution is a value or a collection of values (one for each unknown) such that, when substituted for the unknowns, the equation becomes an equality. A solution of an equation is often called a root of the equation, particularly but not only for polynomial equations. The set of all solutions of an equation is its solution set. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_solving)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- boundary element method
- boundary value problem
- Cauchy problem
- Dirichlet problem
- discrete ordinate method
- Euler scheme
- finite-difference method
- finite-difference time-domain method
- finite element method
- finite volume method
- free boundary problem
- godunov scheme
- Hartree-Fock calculation
- infinite element method
- initial value problem
- Lagrange multiplier
- Lax-Friedrichs scheme
- Lax-Wendroff scheme
- method of characteristics
- multigrid method
- phase space method
- Runge-Kutta method
- self-similarity
- similarity solution
- spectral method
- sphaleron
- Stokes problem
In other languages
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URI
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