Completeness of the real numbersCompleteness is a property of the real numbers that, intuitively, implies that there are no "gaps" (in Dedekind's terminology) or "missing points" in the real number line. This contrasts with the rational numbers, whose corresponding number line has a "gap" at each irrational value. In the decimal number system, completeness is equivalent to the statement that any infinite string of decimal digits is actually a decimal representation for some real number.
Corps réel closEn mathématiques, un corps réel clos est un corps totalement ordonnable dont aucune extension algébrique propre n'est totalement ordonnable. Les corps suivants sont réels clos : le corps des réels, le sous-corps des réels algébriques, le corps des réels calculables (au sens de Turing), le corps des , le corps des séries de Puiseux à coefficients réels, tout corps superréel (en particulier tout corps hyperréel).
Fonction hypergéométriquevignette|Graphe d'une fonction hypergéométrique dans le plan complexe. En mathématiques, le terme de fonction hypergéométrique, parfois sous le nom « fonction hypergéométrique de Gauss », désigne généralement une fonction spéciale particulière, dépendant de trois paramètres a, b, c, notée F(a, b, c ; z), parfois notée sans indice quand il n'y a pas d'ambigüité, et qui s'exprime sous la forme de la série hypergéométrique (lorsque celle-ci converge).
Projectively extended real lineIn real analysis, the projectively extended real line (also called the one-point compactification of the real line), is the extension of the set of the real numbers, , by a point denoted ∞. It is thus the set with the standard arithmetic operations extended where possible, and is sometimes denoted by or The added point is called the point at infinity, because it is considered as a neighbour of both ends of the real line. More precisely, the point at infinity is the limit of every sequence of real numbers whose absolute values are increasing and unbounded.
Generalized hypergeometric functionIn mathematics, a generalized hypergeometric series is a power series in which the ratio of successive coefficients indexed by n is a rational function of n. The series, if convergent, defines a generalized hypergeometric function, which may then be defined over a wider domain of the argument by analytic continuation. The generalized hypergeometric series is sometimes just called the hypergeometric series, though this term also sometimes just refers to the Gaussian hypergeometric series.
