In mathematics, a concave function is the negative of a convex function. A concave function is also synonymously called concave downwards, concave down, convex upwards, convex cap or upper convex.
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“I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, but
for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing.”
—Clarence Lewis (1883–1964)