matroid

Summary

matroid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (281 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• matroid is credited with the discovery of Hassler Whitney^[2].
• matroid's image is recorded as Vamos matroid.svg^[3].
• matroid's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85082228^[4].
• matroid's subclass of is recorded as independence system^[5].
• matroid's subclass of is recorded as greedoid^[6].
• matroid's subclass of is recorded as Coxeter matroid^[7].
• matroid's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01kdc2^[8].
• matroid's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://math.stackexchange.com/tags/matroids^[9].
• matroid's defining formula is recorded as \begin{aligned}\mathcal I&\ne\varnothing\Y\subset X\in\mathcal I&\implies Y\in\mathcal I\X\in\mathcal I\ni Y\land|X|<|Y|&\implies\exists y\in Y\setminus X\colon X\cup{y}\in\mathcal I\end{aligned}<sup id="cite-C14" class="cite-ref" title="matroid — defining formula (P2534): \begin{aligned}\mathcal I&\ne\varnothing\Y\subset X\in\mathcal I&\implies Y\in\mathcal I\X\in\mathcal I\ni Y\land|X|<|Y|&\implies\exists y\in Y\setminus X\colon X">[10].
• matroid's studied by is recorded as matroid theory^[11].
• matroid's MathWorld ID is recorded as Matroid^[12].
• matroid's Treccani ID is recorded as matroide^[13].
• matroid's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as matroids^[14].
• matroid's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[15].
• matroid's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 106286213^[16].
• matroid's in defining formula is recorded as \setminus^[17].
• matroid's in defining formula is recorded as \varnothing^[18].
• matroid's in defining formula is recorded as |~|^[19].
• matroid's in defining formula is recorded as \land^[20].
• matroid's in defining formula is recorded as \implies^[21].
• matroid's in defining formula is recorded as \mathcal I^[22].
• matroid's Encyclopedia of Mathematics article ID is recorded as Matroid^[23].
• matroid's PlanetMath ID is recorded as Matroid^[24].
• matroid's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007557991105171^[25].
• matroid's Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID is recorded as matroide^[26].

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Works and Contributions

matroid is credited with the discovery of Hassler Whitney^[2].

Why It Matters

matroid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (281 views/month).^[1] matroid has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] matroid is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]