Transcendence

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Transcendence, transcendent, or transcendental may refer to:

Mathematics

  • Transcendental number, a number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients
  • Algebraic element or transcendental element, an element of a field extension that is not the root of any polynomial with coefficients from the base field
  • Transcendental function, a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials
  • Transcendental number theory, the branch of mathematics dealing with transcendental numbers and algebraic independence

Music

  • Transcendence (Adil Omar album), a 2018 hip hop album
  • Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album), a 1977 jazz album
  • Transcendence (Crimson Glory album), a 1988 heavy metal album
  • Transcendence (Devin Townsend Project album), a 2016 heavy metal album
  • "Transcendence" (Lindsey Stirling instrumental), a 2012 instrumental piece
  • "Transcendence (Segue)", a 2000 progressive metal instrumental piece by Symphony X
  • Transcendental (album), a 2006 progressive metal album by To-Mera

Literature

  • Transcendence (Rosenthal book), a 2011 book by Norman E. Rosenthal
  • Transcendence (Salvatore novel), a 2002 fantasy novel by R. A. Salvatore
  • Transcendence (Sheffield novel), a 1992 science-fiction novel by Charles Sheffield
  • Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time, a 2019 book by Gaia Vince
  • Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji, a 2015 book by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari
  • Transcendent (novel), a 2005 science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter

Philosophy

  • Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
  • Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical
  • Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
  • Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
  • Transcendental realism, a concept put forward by Roy Bhaskar
  • Transcendental arguments, a style of philosophical argumentation
  • Transcendental phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl
  • Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being

Religion

  • Transcendence (religion), the aspect of a god wholly independent of the material universe
  • Transcendental Meditation, a meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being

Other

  • Transcendence (2012 film), a Chinese film
  • Transcendence (2014 film), an American film starring Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman
  • Transcendence (band), an American alternative rock band
  • Transcendence (Jellum), an outdoor sculpture by Keith Jellum, in Portland, Oregon, US
  • Transcendent (TV series), a 2016 American reality television series
  • Transcendence (video game), a 1995 science-fiction game by George Moromisato

See also

  • Transcend (disambiguation)
  • Transcendental Étude (disambiguation), any of a number of compositions with this title
  • Transcendental whistling, a Daoist technique of long-drawn whistling that functioned as a yogic breath exercise
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