Mathematics
- Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
- Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
- Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
- Identity matrix, a square matrix with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere
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“In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)