Pfaffian

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix, capable of being written as the square of a polynomial in the matrix entries.
    — If A is a skew symmetric matrix then det A is the square of a polynomial in the entries of A. This polynomial is known as the Pfaffian of A, and we denote it by Sym(pf A).
  2. A member of a circle of artists that met at Pfaff's, a restaurant on Broadway. historical
    — Charles E. Hurd, assistant editor of the Boston Transcript, has published in the Commercial Bulletin an academic account of the literary Bohemia of New York at the time the Pfaffians flourished and Ada Clare, Whitman's friend, reigned as its queen.

词形变化

Pfaffians plural pfaffian alternative Pfaffians plural pfaffian alternative

词源

词源 1
From Pfaff + -ian, after Johann Friedrich Pfaff.
词源 2
After Charles Ignatious Pfaff, the founder of the restaurant.
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