What is Analysis: Definition and 999 Discussions

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.The word comes from the Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (analysis, "a breaking-up" or "an untying;" from ana- "up, throughout" and lysis "a loosening"). From it also comes the word's plural, analyses.
As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes (Discourse on the Method), and Galileo Galilei. It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery (which he did not name).

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  1. docnet

    I Post your favorite real analysis problem

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  2. Syed7777777

    Random Vibration Fatigue Analysis

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  3. Orodruin

    Insights The Slinky Drop Experiment Analysed

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  4. Chestermiller

    I Interesting Thermodynamics Problem deleted in PhysicsStackExchange

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  5. M

    I Question about branch of logarithms

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  6. Shauryafrom2006

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  7. BillTre

    Art O Brother, Where Art Thou? film analysis

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  8. Wrichik Basu

    Engineering Sinusoidal steady state analysis using Laplace transform

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  9. L

    I Why is this function not ##L^1(\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R})##?

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  10. bhobba

    Insights What Are Numbers? - Insights for Beginners

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  11. P

    A Topology - Boundary of a ball without a point

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  12. MidgetDwarf

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  14. ARoyC

    Engineering Optimizing Diode Performance: Load Line Analysis

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  15. FactChecker

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  16. Natanis_Likens

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  17. A

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  18. S

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  19. F

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  20. S

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  21. S

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  22. vinicius_linhares

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  23. D

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  24. B

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  25. Artemisa

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  26. etile

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  27. M

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  29. simplemind

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  30. M

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  31. M

    I Proving Continuous Functions in Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis

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  32. M

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  33. ermia

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  34. M

    I Method for experimental results analysis

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  35. J

    Proof for Real Analysis

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  36. A

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  37. B

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  38. H

    Good introductory book on statistical/data analysis?

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  39. F

    Engineering Use voltage nodal analysis to solve for the current flowing in this AC circuit

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  40. G

    Capacitor Circuit Analysis: How to Find Voltage Across Resistors

    Figure: My attempt at a solution: Once the capacitors have been applied, we see directly that ##\boxed{v_c=v_0=0\, \textrm{V}}## Wouldn't this one be done like this? I know the following: in a circuit with capacitors and coils, if we have Capacitor: we change for an open circuit. Coil: we...
  41. mcastillo356

    I Understanding Theorem 13 from Calculus 7th ed, R. Adams, C. Essex, 4.10

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  42. G

    Analysis of systems in equilibrium: articulated structures

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  43. G

    Analysis of a Figure to Calculate Force and Moment

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  44. huc369

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  45. H

    Engineering Struggling with a Structural Analysis Problem?

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  46. C

    AI Computation (self study analysis, pointers welcome)

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  47. C

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  48. A

    Modal mass and kinetic energy in FEM modal analysis

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  49. JH_1870

    A A question about current density in finite element analysis

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  50. H

    I Analysis of converting a DE into complex DE

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