Well-known Inequalities
See also: List of inequalitiesMathematicians often use inequalities to bound quantities for which exact formulas cannot be computed easily. Some inequalities are used so often that they have names:
- Azuma's inequality
- Bernoulli's inequality
- Boole's inequality
- Cauchy–Schwarz inequality
- Chebyshev's inequality
- Chernoff's inequality
- Cramér–Rao inequality
- Hoeffding's inequality
- Hölder's inequality
- Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means
- Jensen's inequality
- Kolmogorov's inequality
- Markov's inequality
- Minkowski inequality
- Nesbitt's inequality
- Pedoe's inequality
- Poincaré inequality
- Triangle inequality
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