"Cauchy sequence" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Cauchy sequences [plural]
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), who made pioneering contributions to analysis. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Cauchy sequence (plural Cauchy sequences)
  1. (mathematical analysis) Any sequence x_n in a metric space with metric d such that for every ϵ>0 there exists a natural number N such that for all k,m>N, d(x_k,x_m)<ϵ. Wikipedia link: Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Cauchy sequence Categories (topical): Functional analysis, Mathematical analysis Derived forms: Cauchy [adjective] Related terms: Cauchy convergence, Cauchy filter, Cauchy net, Cauchy space Translations (sequence in a normed vector space): Cauchyfølge [common-gender] (Danish), Cauchyn jono (Finnish), Cauchy-Folge [feminine] (German), Cauchyfolge [feminine] (German), successione di Cauchy [feminine] (Italian), Cauchyjev niz [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Cauchyföljd (Swedish)

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