List of formal systems

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This is a list of formal systems, also known as logical calculi.

Mathematical[edit]

  • Functional calculus, a way to apply various types of functions to operators
  • Matrix calculus, a specialized notation for multivariable calculus over spaces of matrices
  • Umbral calculus, the combinatorics of certain operations on polynomials
  • Vector calculus (also called vector analysis), comprising specialized notations for multivariable analysis of vectors in an inner-product space

Logical[edit]

In theoretical computer science (Formal language)[edit]

Other formal systems[edit]

  • Formal ethics – formal logical system for describing and evaluating the "form" as opposed to the "content" of ethical principles

Music is a formal system too. Please have editors illuminate on this.

See also[edit]