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- noun In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square
matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find theeigenvalues of the matrix.
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- noun changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal)
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diagonal + -isation
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Second, the method that is used, called diagonalisation was already present in the work of du Bois-Reymond for building real functions growing faster than any function in a given sequence of functions.
Type Theory Coquand, Thierry 2006
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A recent paper, Periods and elementary real numbers claims to exhibit one by means of a kind of diagonalisation argument.
A Neighborhood of Infinity sigfpe 2010
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The theoretical groundings of the recursive mathematics of Gödel can be found in famous diagonalisation method of Cantor
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Applying the usual diagonalisation argument (as in the proof of the
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