Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

absence

[cf. lack]

The location of the zeros of a holomorphic function in a region Ω is subject to no restriction except the obvious one concerning the absence of limit points in Ω. [Note the difference: absence = non-presence; lack = shortage of something desirable.]


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