Associated Legendre function — Note: This article describes a very general class of functions. An important subclass of these functions mdash;those with integer ell and m mdash;are commonly called associated Legendre polynomials , even though they are not polynomials when m is … Wikipedia
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Naccache-Stern cryptosystem — Note: this is not to be confused with the Naccache Stern knapsack cryptosystem.The Naccache Stern cryptosystem is a homomorphic Public key cryptosystem whose security rests on the higher residuosity problem.The Naccache Stern cryptosystem was… … Wikipedia
Wick's theorem — is a method of reducing high order derivatives to a combinatorics problem.(Philips, 2001) It is named after Gian Carlo Wick. It is used extensively in quantum field theory to reduce arbitrary products of creation and annihilation operators to… … Wikipedia
Grad school — Graduate school Aux États Unis et au Canada, une école des gradués (en anglais graduate school), également connue au Québec sous les noms de « faculté des études supérieures » ou encore de « direction des hautes études », est… … Wikipédia en Français
Graduate School — Aux États Unis et au Canada, une école des gradués (en anglais graduate school), également connue au Québec sous les noms de « faculté des études supérieures » ou encore de « direction des hautes études », est une composante d … Wikipédia en Français