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Definition of Discriminants
1. discriminant [n] - See also: discriminant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discriminants
Literary usage of Discriminants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra by George Salmon (1885)
"discriminants. (Page 98). The word ' discriminant' was introduced by Sylvester
in 1852, Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, vol. vi., p. 52. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants by Oliver Edmunds Glenn (1915)
"Tables giving these expressions for all functions of weights 1 to 6 inclusive
were published by Junker * in 1897. III. Semi-discriminants. ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on Cubic and Quartic Curves by Alfred Barnard Basset (1901)
"discriminants. \ The result of eliminating x and y between two binary ... We shall
now write down the discriminants A of the binary quadric, ..."
4. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester by James Joseph Sylvester (1908)
"ON A THEOREM CONCERNING discriminants. [Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London, xiv. (1865), pp. 336—337.] LET F (a, b, c, ..."
5. The Invariant Theory of the Inversion Group: Geometry Upon a Quadric Surface by Edward Kasner (1900)
"The discriminants and the nodal invariant. — If in f = a™o^ we consider A. or fj.
as being the only variable, and take the corresponding discriminants, ..."
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