Fixed Point

"Fixed point" has many meanings in science, most of them mathematical.

  • Fixed point (mathematics)
  • Fixed-point iteration, a general method to compute the fixed point of an iterated function.
  • Fixed-point combinator
  • For "Fixed-point join" in databases, see Recursive join
  • Fixed-point arithmetic, a manner of doing arithmetic on computers
  • Benchmark (surveying), fixed points used by geodesists
  • For “fixed points” in physics, see Renormalization group
  • Fixed points are necessary for a watercraft to be moored to a quay.
  • Archimedes said δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω, which is sometimes translated as “Give me a fixed point and I will move the world.”

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or point:

    “Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.”
    —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)