Encyclopedia
Boundedness
Topics referred to by the same term
Boundedness, bounded, or unbounded may refer to:
01Economics
- Bounded rationality, the idea that human rationality in decision-making is bounded by the available information, the cognitive limitations, and the time available to make the decision
- Bounded emotionality, a concept within communication theory that stems from emotional labor and bounded rationality
02Linguistics
- Boundedness (linguistics), whether a situation has a clearly defined beginning or end
03Mathematics
- Boundedness axiom, the axiom schema of replacement
- Bounded deformation, a function whose distributional derivatives are not quite well-behaved-enough to qualify as functions of bounded variation, although the symmetric part of the derivative matrix does meet that condition
- Bounded growth, occurs when the growth rate of a mathematical function is constantly increasing at a decreasing rate
- Bounded operator, a linear transformation L between normed vector spaces for which the ratio of the norm of L(v) to that of v is bounded by the same number over all non-zero vectors v
- Unbounded operator, a linear operator defined on a subspace
- Bounded poset, a partially ordered set that has both a greatest and a least element
- Bounded set, a set that is finite in some sense
- Bounded function, a function or sequence whose possible values form a bounded set
- Bounded set (topological vector space), a set in which every neighborhood of the zero vector can be inflated to include the set
- Bounded variation, a real-valued function whose total variation is bounded
- Bounded pointer, a pointer that is augmented with additional information that enable the storage bounds within which it may point to be deduced
04Other uses
- Unbounded, a 2023 book by Australian author Maria Thattil
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Boundedness”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Fathomly is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Spotted a problem? Tell us.