About: Cyclic (mathematics)

There are many terms in mathematics that begin with cyclic: * Cyclic chain rule, for derivatives, used in thermodynamics * Cyclic code, linear codes closed under cyclic permutations * Cyclic convolution, a method of combining periodic functions * Cycle decomposition (graph theory) * Cycle decomposition (group theory) * Cyclic extension, a field extension with cyclic Galois group * Graph theory: * Cycle graph, a connected, 2-regular graph * Cycle graph (algebra), a diagram representing the cycles determined by taking powers of group elements * Circulant graph, a graph with cyclic symmetry * Cycle (graph theory), a nontrivial path in some graph from a node to itself * Cyclic graph, a graph containing at least one graph cycle * Cyclic group, a group generated by a single element